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Article: Internet Search Reveals Range of Tributes to Christopher Columbus.
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- October 11, 1999
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 11 -- What if Columbus could have surfed before he sailed?
If the Internet had been invented 507 years ago, what a lot of trouble the Admiral of the Ocean Seas could have saved himself.
As a whimsical tribute to an explorer for whom today's holiday was named because he "discovered" something its native inhabitants found thousands of years earlier, let's consider how a wired Columbus might have fared.
First problem: convincing everyone that the world was round. Chris could have just e-mailed skeptics links to Earth From Space (http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov) , an online database of images of NASA ...