Human beings. We have a need to bring down our heroes. ~> RT @BoingBoing: Christopher Colombus: raping, murdering... http://dlvr.it/46bqL3
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@BoingBoing@cedricr Locked up for his depravites on Hispaniola by the Spanish. He out attrocitied the Spanish in the caribean! -
@ColinNorthway@BoingBoing Not exactly what we (well I at least) were taught in school unfortunately! -
@cedricr Are you American? As a Canadian he didn't come up much. What did you learn about him? -
@ColinNorthway French! From what I remember he was described like a heroic explorer, even if the bad spanish where not always helpful ;-) -
@cedricr Did you learn that he believed he had found not the new world but China, even to his death? -
@ColinNorthway I remember India, not China? -
@cedricr Somewhere in the orient anyway
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