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Default Secret of How Columbus Discovered the New World


"Ed Conrad" wrote in message
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| The compass!
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| That was his secret..

Keeping Polaris in sight had nothing to do with it, eh?
No way was he ever going to cross the equator by sea
unless in sight of land, and neither did those that followed
in his footsteps, even with a lodestone.
You are not too bright, are you?


 
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