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Podcast: Ridiculous History
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Christopher Columbus Was Such A Jerk That Even Spain Turned Against Him
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:38:31
Publish Date: 2019-10-08 21:42:27
Description:

For decades in the West, Christopher Columbus was often inaccurately portrayed as a pioneering explorer, his life, times and crimes sanitized in the public record. Schoolchildren learned rhymes about this individual, and in the US he was given an official holiday. However, the activities of the real Christopher Columbus fall far short of the image children were taught growing up. In fact, Columbus was such a dirtbag that, eventually, even the Spanish Crown turned against him.

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