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TRUE STORIES OF GREAT AMERICANS

TRUE STORIES OF GREAT AMERICANS

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BY MILDRED STAPLEY

  Whatever can be known of earth we know,
    Sneered Europe's wise men, in their snail shells curled;
  No! said one man in Genoa, and that No
    Out of the dark created the New World.

—JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
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