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| 9d6724f | En 1492, los nativos descubrieron que eran indios, descubrieron que vivian en America, descubrieron que estaban desnudos, descubrieron que existia el pecado, descubrieron que debian obediencia a un rey y a una reina de otro mundo y a un dios de otro cielo, y que ese dios habia inventado la culpa y el vestido y habia mandado que fuera quemado vivo quien adorara al sol y a la luna y a la tierra y a la lluvia que la moja. | conquista columbus-day native-americans | Eduardo Galeano | |
| bb4c29a | Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer. It would be hard to name any figure in history who has achieved more lasting fame with less competence. He spent large parts of eight years bouncing around Caribbean islands and coastal South America convinced that he was in the heart of the Orient and that Japan and China were at the edge of every sunset. He never worked out that Cuba is an island and never once set foot on, or even suspected the existence of, the landmass to the north that everyone thinks he discovered: the United States. | columbus-day columbus | Bill Bryson |