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Title: Christopher Columbus Biography
Post by: rangerrebew on October 10, 2018, 02:41:01 pm

Christopher Columbus Biography

Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)  was an Italian explorer, colonizer, and navigator. He is remembered as the principal European discoverer of the Americas and he helped bring the Americas to the forefront of the western consciousness. His discoveries and travels laid the framework for the later European colonisation of Latin and North America.

    “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

– Christopher Columbus

https://www.biographyonline.net/adventurers/christopher-columbus.html (https://www.biographyonline.net/adventurers/christopher-columbus.html)