Columbus Was (Not) The First To Cross The Atlantic
http://lostislamichistory.com/columbus-was-not-the-first-to-cross-the-atlantic/ The old poem that most American school children recognize begins “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…” Indeed, in the year 1492, Christopher Columbus (whose real name in Italian was Cristoforo Colombo) sailed across the Atlantic in the name of the Spanish crown and landed in the […]