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CHAPTER 6: WHAT COLUMBUS DISCOVERED
A little over three hundred years ago there was a Pope of Rome whose name was Gregory XIII. He was greatly interested in learning and science, and when the scholars and wise men of his day showed him that a mistake in reckoning time had long before been made he set about to make it…
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Chistopher Columbus: CHAPTER 4: HOW THE ADMIRAL SAILED AWAY.
The agreement made between Columbus and the king and queen of Spain was signed on the seventeenth of April, 1492. But it was four months before he was quite ready to sail away. He selected the town of Palos as the place to sail from, because there, as you know, Captain Pinzon lived; there, too,…