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Originally Posted by GspotProductions
...The day of Christopher Columbus found the Americas in like the 1400īs or something....
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"?Teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy:
1492
As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."
[Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions]
FYI:
Columbus never discovered America
If you don't like reading but have 5 minutes to learn the very basics on what he did: