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...asked my 10-year-old brother what he had learned in school about Columbus. “Well,” he said with confidence, “his ships were the Niña, the Pinta, and the Mayflower…” I told him I didn’t think the Mayflower was one of the ships on Columbus’s voyage to America. Then I asked him what Columbus did once he got to America. “He met some Indians and the Indians died,” my brother replied. Perhaps this...
...girls named Nina, Pinta or Santa Maria...
...service of Spain, the Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus took the caravels Nina and Pinta along with the Santa Maria on his historic voyage across the Atlantic...
...pioneering craft go, the Breitling Orbiter 3 outclasses the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria--and the Spirit of St. Louis, for that matter. It is a high-tech combination of hot air and gas, equipped not only with simple necessities like a bunk, toilet and desks but also with a fax machine and satellite telephones. The journey began on March 1, Piccard's birthday, in the snowcapped mountains of Chateau-d'Oex, Switzerland. Piccard and Jones cruised toward Italy at an altitude of 21,000 ft., crossed over the Mediterranean at night and enjoyed a meal...
...plan to make Tulsa a jumping-off point for colonization of outer space. It includes a novel solution to overcrowded prisons: sending convicts on missions to build interstellar infrastructure. But Amen still must contend with football-star-turned-Congressman Steve Largent before the 21st century's Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria can set sail...