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formercia

(18,479 posts) Thu Oct 10, 2013, 09:01 AM Oct 2013

A little reminder regarding Columbus Day.

John Kerry, please take note, since you are or were Head of the Knights of Columbus.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day

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A little reminder regarding Columbus Day. (Original Post) formercia Oct 2013 OP

+ Refs are Lies My teacher Told Me and A People's History of US lunasun Oct 2013 #1

K & R historylovr Oct 2013 #2

What a scumbag! BillyRibs Oct 2013 #3

Columbus Got Lost Wolf Frankula Oct 2013 #4

On Yahoo... formercia Oct 2013 #5

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

1. + Refs are Lies My teacher Told Me and A People's History of US

Reply to formercia (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 09:42 AM

Oct 2013

Many do not want to look at what is "behind the curtain"

historylovr

(1,557 posts)

2. K & R

Reply to formercia (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 10:17 AM

Oct 2013

BillyRibs

(787 posts)

3. What a scumbag!

Reply to formercia (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 11:45 AM

Oct 2013

To think all the years as a child think of this SB as a hero. He shot fish in a barrel, used germ warfare, enslaved , genocidal murder, and was thought of as brave.

Wolf Frankula

(3,602 posts)

4. Columbus Got Lost

Reply to formercia (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 01:43 PM

Oct 2013

To the end of his life he thought he'd found India.

Hope everybody had a happy Leif Eriksson Day yesterday.

Wolf

formercia

(18,479 posts)

5. On Yahoo...

Reply to formercia (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 03:01 PM

Oct 2013

http://news.yahoo.com/slavery--disease--death--the-dark-side-of-the-christopher-columbus-story-141953979.html

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