What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
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When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts.
The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.