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		kamjam on June 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability? To be really fair, Columbus was searching for India when he first discovered America so I doubt he even knew what he had stumbled upon

dragonwriter on June 2, 2014 [–]

IIRC, he continuously insisted that he had reached the ("East", as we now know them as a result of him being wrong) Indies, in fact.

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