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Article: Admiral of the ocean sea. (worthiness of celebrating Christopher Columbus' discovery of America) (Editorial)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 2, 1992
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FIVE HUNDRED years ago Christopher Columbus discovered America. That's right: discovered America. To say this would be to risk ridicule on any college campus today (and indeed, thanks to multicultural "diversity," many high schools and grade schools). After all, weren't there people already present in the Western Hemisphere in 1492? But in a real sense Columbus did discover America. That is, he and other fifteenth-century navigators brought the American continent into world history. In the European world of Columbus, the great navigators were part of an explosion of cultural and intellectual energy that reached into all areas of life. Its spirit is well expressed by the ...
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