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Columbus in China?

  • October 8, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Today is Columbus Day, marking Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World. The Italian explorer stumbled upon a continent previously unknown to Europeans while trying to chart a western route to Asia. When he first spotted Cuba, he thought it was mainland China.

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