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Thread #173597 Message #4210254
Posted By: robomatic
22-Oct-24 - 02:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Indigenous Peoples Day
Subject: RE: BS: Indigenous Peoples Day
I spent a vacation from Alaska hanging around Fisherman's Wharf, which is a kind of Italianate piece of San Francisco. I recall a grand statue of Christopher Columbus and I will check to see if it is still there.
Incidentally, I saw a documentary on the Original Columbus a few years back and while it did not state that he was in any way Jewish in origin, apparently it was a rumor he played with for his own purposes, but he was personally secure in his Catholicism.
I doubt he was Jewish, but there is little doubt that Jews played a part in getting the hell out of Spain by any means necessary, and played a part in navigation and voyages out of Spain and Portugal.