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DNA May Reveal Who Can Claim Columbus
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He gave new meaning to the phrase "world-class celebrity," but
like Garbo, Christopher Columbus had little interest in talking about
himself and dismissed queries about his origins with a rhetorical
shrug: "Vine de nada" -- "I came from nothing."
It was never enough. For centuries, scholars have wondered about
this enigmatic mariner whose compulsion to travel east by traveling
west altered the course of Western civilization and effectively ended
the Middle Ages.
He may have been born in Genoa, but he wrote in indifferent Latin
or in good Spanish -- never in Italian. He had French ...
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