The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.
In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.