Herman by Jim Unger for June 04, 1997
June 03, 1997
June 05, 1997
Transcript:
"Columbus, will you sit down and stop asking all these dumb questions?"
"Columbus, will you sit down and stop asking all these dumb questions?"
Columbus was mocked not for saying the world is round, but for saying it’s much more curved – that is, smaller – than was already the consensus estimate. His crew was close to starvation when the New World got in the way of his intended jaunt to China.