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Capalbo said that the rumor surfaces every four or five years. "I'm sure that Nostradamus had the power to predict Adolf Hitler, but he never had the foresight to see Boston College," Capalbo said...
...When it opened at the University of Florida's Museum of Natural History two years ago, an exhibit called "First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States 1492-1570" drew spirited opposition from Native American activists, including Russell Means of the American Indian Movement. "Columbus makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent!" yelled demonstrators. COLUMBUS MURDERED A CONTINENT read one of the placards. Last July a group of protesters dressed as South American Indians appeared unannounced in Spain, wearing loincloths, their faces and bodies painted. The invaders peacefully entered the shrine of the nation's patron saint...
...less vitriolic modern historiography makes clear, Columbus was not the gem of the ocean, the flawless hero of so many earlier hagiographies. But was the historic figure whose name was adopted by a South American republic, the District of Columbia and countless other places and entities, really worse than Hitler or Attila the Hun? What in the New World is going on around here...
...country. By now, the facts are well known: A Hasidic Jew killed a seven-year-old Black child in a traffic accident. Black rioters then killed a 29-year-old Hasidic Jew in retribution. The pogram deepened the hostility between the two groups, as Black crowds yelled that Hitler hadn't finished...
...Russian presidential election despite -- or because of -- his wild ideas (he now speaks of solving food shortages by invading the former East Germany with an army brandishing nuclear weapons). Says economist Timofeyev: "Right now, Zhirinovsky seems like a fool, but we have to remember that nobody took Adolf Hitler seriously until it was too late...