Good morning, and welcome, and congratulations. You made it to Friday. I’ll bet you didn’t think you would, on Monday. Got several inches of snow on the ground here. Time to become re-acquainted with my emotional support snow shovel. (sigh)
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1493: Christopher Columbus, having been discovered by people he called Indians, leaves for Spain to report back to Ferdinand II on his investment in exploration. It was a few years later that Pedro Álvares Cabral actually found the path to India that Columbus was searching for.
1605: Miguel de Cervantes publishes the first in a series of books on Don Quixote.
1832: Charles Darwin lands in the Cape Verde Islands, the first landing of his voyages on The Beagle.
1919: The 18th Amendment, prohibiting
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