I just wrote several articles about Christopher Columbus. What an interesting character! and so full of contradictions. He treated the natives he found in the new world well on the first voyage, but tried to enslave them later. He was a great navigator and "Admiral of the Ocean Sea", but he was a terrible administrator and made a hash of his job as Viceroy of Hispanola.
I have been looking for good images of the ships he travelled in. Found some good ones at Arts and Nature in Oswego County, New York, interestingly enough. These are photos of ships built in the same way the originals were made.
In my gadding about I also found a beautiful representation of a caravel. On this same page there were also some pics of audio postcards or 33 rpm recordings!
Monday, June 22, 2009
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