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America was discovered almost 150 years before Christopher Columbus
New analysis of ancient writings suggests that sailors from the Italian hometown of Christopher Columbus knew of America 150 years before its renowned ‘discovery’. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0 ...
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Columbus did not take syphilis to the Americas – he brought it back to Europe
A 19th-century illustration shows Christopher ... Columbus’ crew “carried off” native women, acquiring sexually transmitted diseases. Columbus arriving in the Americas, in an 1800 painting ...
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Columbus did not take syphilis to the Americas – he brought it back to Europe
When a mysterious flesh-rotting disease broke out in Europe in 1495, two years after Christopher ... transmitted diseases. Columbus arriving in the Americas, in an 1800 painting by Frederick ...