He landed in Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and Dominican Republic. On his second voyage he landed in Puerto Rico. He could have used a GPS unit.
Actually recent studies show that Columbus was Spanish, from a southern province that had been fighting Ferdinand and Isabella, so he claimed to be Italian to fool them. None of his letters were written in Italian, only Spanish, even when he wrote to people in Italy.
cdward almost 15 years ago
I think Rubino and Markstein have some issues with Columbus (yesterday’s and today’s comics). They’d be right to.
quinones.felix almost 15 years ago
He landed in Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and Dominican Republic. On his second voyage he landed in Puerto Rico. He could have used a GPS unit.
joannepowers Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Actually recent studies show that Columbus was Spanish, from a southern province that had been fighting Ferdinand and Isabella, so he claimed to be Italian to fool them. None of his letters were written in Italian, only Spanish, even when he wrote to people in Italy.
bald almost 15 years ago
and he also did it with someone else’s money
Wildcard24365 almost 15 years ago
Say what you will but it was Columbo’s expedition that, for better and for worse, led to the permanent European colonization of the “New World.”
Still, if the Scaninavians had just stuck around, we probably wouldn’t be so terrified of state-run medicine…
Wildcard24365 almost 15 years ago
Joe: No kiddin’? I gotta look that up.