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The Challenges of Circumnavigation
In Lisbon today, there are monuments to Magellan, Prince Henry the Navigator and the others whose voyages of discovery took them to every corner of the globe. In the Philippines, people celebrate a man who resisted colonization just as fiercely. Both cultures consider these men heroes. History and human behavior works this way. Tribalism still abides, whether it’s football games or outright war. We seem to be making progress, but can we find a way to celebrate diversity without demonizing those who are different?
Vikings!
Dispatch IX
Most of us think that Christopher Columbus and his crew were the first to stumble across North America in 1492. That turns out to be quite wrong. Five hundred years earlier white men encountered native Americans on the North American continent. We learned where they met, and the story behind how.