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		a1a on June 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability? To be fair it would really be misleading as he wasn't the one who "discovered" America. >>He was the first person to establish long and meaningful >>connection with the New World that would eventually tie >>Europe to the Americas, but it is a misconception that he >>was the first to “discover” America. http://sites.psu.edu/mmancini/2012/09/08/1-columbus-was-the-... Additional source: http://web.dsbn.edu.on.ca/~William.Randall@dsbn.edu.on.ca/FO...

kamjam on June 2, 2014 | [–]

To be really fair, Columbus was searching for India when he first discovered America so I doubt he even knew what he had stumbled upon

dragonwriter on June 2, 2014 | | [–]

IIRC, he continuously insisted that he had reached the ("East", as we now know them as a result of him being wrong) Indies, in fact.

kubiiii on June 2, 2014 | [–]

Consider my post a alley oop assist ;)

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