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What does Columbus have to do with the United States? He never set foot here, didn't know where he was at, despite carrying maps from previous explorers who had been in the area previously.
When Balboa crossed the isthmus of Central America and became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the east, he, along with other Conquistadores in Mexico discovered Asiatic chickens were already there. How did they get there? Thor Heyerdahl proved it was possible for South Sea Islanders to have crossed the Pacific by traveling west to east to arrive in North and South America.
FYI: In Mexico, there are black lacquered boxes with beautiful designs on them that are sold to tourists, etc. and the formula for the lacquer is only made in one other place in the world, a province in China. This and many other theories/proofs can be read about in a book by Gavin Menzies, "1421, the Year China Discovered America".
Then, almost 500 years earlier then Columbus, there were the Vikings (Scandinavian Warriors) who made their way to Greenland and the North American Continent.
There was a long held theory about Asiatic peoples crossing the Bering Strait to get to N. America and they became what we now know as Native Americans, formerly "Injuns", (I get facetious now and then). Walking across the strait has been debunked as the Asiatics would not have been able to carry enough supplies to make it across and so it is thought they followed the currents and used boats to get to the "New World".
New discoveries show that man has been in the "Americas" even longer, by tens of thousands of years.
I think that Columbus just had good PR people.
 
And it may be the last if the other guys have their way with 'diversity'.
Um, pretty sure diversity has nothing to do with it. Tough to keep honoring a guy for "discovering America" when he never set foot on anything but Caribbean islands- and even that was accidental. After which he killed a whole bunch of natives trying to get gold they didn't have. In other words, when Washington Irving fiction we were taught in school has been called out.
 
Columbus captured many indigenous people as slaves and took them back to Spain where they eventually died, far from their homes and familes.
Just read that due to some incomclusive DNA testing, Columbus may have not been Italian, but Spanish and Jewish.

STAY TUNED: Soon we may learn that the GREAT PUMPKIN is also a cannibal and an ancestor of Hannibal Lector, just MTG!
 

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