"Intrepid" <Intrepid517@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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The compass!
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That's what did it.
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Columbus was one of the first seafarers to realize that the compass,
invented hundreds of years before the days of King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella, was NOT
a child's toy, as almost everyone believed at the time.
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In fact, the compass was the reason why Columbus -- in the years
before he discovered America -- could set sail toward  unknown parts
of the ocean and always come back safe and sound.

Do they still teach that Columbus "discovered" America?