Christopher Columbus Alternatives

TRIGGER WARNING:  What if C^2 had been funded by Abu `Abdallah Muhammad XII, the Emir of Granada?

For John, BLUF:  If Christopher Columbus did wrong, then was there a "right" way of learning about the rest of the world?  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Anglosphere: Celebrating wrong Italian?

A nice, but short read, by UPI and Mr James C Bennet, on 12 October of the year 2002.

Here is the meat of it.

I do not join in the politically-correct denigration of Columbus.  But I do raise the question of whether, by celebrating him rather than John Cabot [born Giovanni Caboto], we of the Anglosphere may be celebrating the wrong Italian.

The answer is yes.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff