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Article: Dental studies now offer a clue to who sailed the ocean blue.(N)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 24, 2009
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By Kari Lydersen
The Washington Post
The first planned colonial town in the New World was founded in 1494, when about 1,200 of Christopher Columbus' crew members from the 17 ships that made up his second journey to the Americas settled on the north coast of what is now the Dominican Republic.
Beset by mutiny, mismanagement, hurricanes and disease, the settlement of La Isabela lasted only a few years. The ruins remained largely intact until the 1950s, when a local official reportedly misunderstood the order from dictator Rafael Trujillo to clean up the site in preparation for visiting dignitaries, and had them mostly bulldozed into the sea.
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...White crosses--when death doesn't ask your name. White crosses--random markers of the rotting embrace between flesh and soil. White crosses--knowing that wherever we walk, we walk on graves. Goose-bumps, rumours in the heat, the spitting tremor of a spirit in our spine. There among the flaming
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