John Noble Wilford
History has not been the lumbus. Such, it seems, is the fate of histori- same since Christopher cal figures whose deeds reverberate Columbus. Neither has through time. he been the same The Columbus story surely confirms the throughout history. axiom that all works of history are interim
During the five cen- reports. What people did in the past is not

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tunes since his epochal voyage of 1492, Co-preserved in amber, a moment captured lumbus has been many things to m...