Word: corvo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There has never been, a Hadrian VII-except in "Baron Corvo's" brilliant, perverse novel about an English Pope who chose that title...
...debunkers' view of history. And at each point they found that Columbus' account rang true. Columbus had noted that as he approached the Azores the seaweed turned brown, disappeared a day before he reached port. So found Professor Morison & party 447 years later. They saw on Corvo Island in the Azores the fantastic rock formation that Columbus had seen through fog and mist and which seemed to him to point west. Twenty days from the Canaries to Trinidad-it had taken Columbus 26-convinced the seafaring Professor that Columbus was a very fine seaman, who "could...