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Christopher Columbus (1451 – May 20, 1506) was a navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. Though not the first to reach the Americas from Afro-Eurasiapreceded some five hundred years by Leif Ericson, and perhaps by othersColumbus initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans. With his several hapless attempts at establishing a settlement on the... full article at wikipedia
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