CSI – Colombus Stolen Identity

Recently, something we took for granted and that we were still teaching in Schools, just a couple of months ago, all over the world, has been demystified - Pluto is no longer among the great planets of the galaxy, having been demoted to an embarrasing 2nd rank as a dwarf planet.
What happened to Pluto, makes one think what other subjects could be reevaluated, at the light of science and knowledge today.
However, that is not so easy as it sounds, for many a pompous scientist, professor, States or whatever, endorse or investe on the status quo and perpetuated the accepted version of the truth.

If any old Indiana Jones attempts to dig deeper and rescue some secrets from the grave, he is going to meet with a lot of resistance and even conspiracy, in an attempt to cover up the new data…
You are still a bit skeptic, right now – great, that’s the spirit, if you really want to uncover the truth and separate the facts from the fantasies.

One of the greatest shams ever accomplished, is that of the Italian founder of America, the man some intentionally or by mistake called, Christopher Colombus. Historians have had more doubts than certainties about this figure, but despite the lack of evidence, many sold their version of the navigator – sold is really the word to remember here…
So, if you never heard anything about a Portuguese “Colombus” or about the ongoing DNA tests, then keep reading – not my scribble, but the experts' investigations.

"What we have discovered is that historians and history books, no matter how hard they argue, cannot back up with facts his (Cólon) true name, his nationality, his date of birth and real family, his motivation and patriotism – not even his being the first man to sail across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World with the certainty that we have been taught.
In actuality, the reverse is true. For every bit of documentation regarding the accepted details of the discoverer’s life, there is more documentation negating it. Historians have debated this issue for five hundred years, and most have wrongly decided that the Italian Cristoforo Colombo was the same man as Don Cristoval Colon, but the support for this accepted piece of the myth had many holes in it and was finally sunk in 2004 by forensic science. Forensic And DNA science proved, just as some historians had insisted over the centuries, that Cristoforo Colombo was not Don Cristoval Colon." © by Manuel Rosa
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