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"God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of Saint John . . . and he showed me the spot where to find it." So wrote Christopher Columbus in 1500, eight years after discovering the New World.
Columbus has gone down in history as a bold explorer and man of sci- ence who overcame the ignorance and superstition of his ti...