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A day late, but just wanted to share this bit of history. I’ve read about these issues, and I try to argue them every year, and people get all upset about it, but I don’t care, I hate rewriting of history. This guy does a great job. Columbus was used as a political pawn in his lifetime and in the years that followed his death and again centuries later. I think my favorite debunking in this is the statement, “nobody cared much about Columbus until 1828 when his name was used to promote Italians in America.” Meanwhile, just 18 years earlier, an entire country was named after him.