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Word: caravels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole outfit of equally misleading new ones. Our predecessors made a hero of Christopher Columbus. To Europeans and white Americans in 1892, he was Manifest Destiny in tights, whereas a current PC book like Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise makes him more like Hitler in a caravel, landing like a virus among the innocent people of the New World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fraying Of America | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

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