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I didn't know who Frank Rizzo was other than the name is the same as a character from the Jerky Boys and so I googled him.
Now I know why the Jerky Boys named their screaming, psychopathic character after this guy, lol.Just wait after November you'll have a front row seat because I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a faggot.
— Rizzo, during his 1975 reelection campaign[14]
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This is the same for all Anglosphere nations where the percentages is slowly being swung to third worldom
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Eph. 6:12
Definition of untrustworthy and loose character are those that don't believe in God.
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True, Columbus was an average navigator and died thinking he had reached Asia (actually all the Age of Discovery started exactly with the aim of findind new routes to the Orient, the fact there was a continent in the middle westwards was an accident). Both Spanish and Portuguese crowns knew already there was a huge land mass (wich would likely be a new continent), any updated historian knows about these facts, those coasts were already being explored in secret. Columbus expedition was just the officialization of those exploitations.
About his origin much has been debated, one thing is curious, his writtings were never in Italian or any Italian dialect, he wrote in mostly in Castillian, sometimes in Catalan and often with lusismos or galleguismos. He also went to great efforts to conceal his origins, wich makes some historians to believe that he was probably a Jewish converso.
If you go by that principle, there wouldn't be any stautes of historical figures. Anyway it's all subjective, someone can be an hero from a certain point of view and a psycopath from another.
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It's and was highly suspected in those times that Colon took the knowledge about the existence of a land westerwards from the story got from this dying spanish sailor from Huelva. This fact is even recognised by most scholars, expeditionaries in that age.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso...chez_de_Huelva
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Well the Americas before the european colonization wasn't a paradise full of pink unicorns, candies and peace for everybody. Hundreds of Amerindian tribes were always in war between themselves, enslaving each other's, making human sacrifices to gods with their enemies, etc.
Local Amerindian tribes were allies of Hernan Cortés in his conquest of Mexico because they hated the Aztecs.
History is history...the good ones are not always so good and the bad ones are not always so bad.
Last edited by Autrigón; 09-05-2017 at 07:39 PM.
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They are honored in USA:
Statue of the explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in San Agustín (Florida).
Celebrations in San Agustín, Florida (The most ancient city in USA).
Statue of Ponce de Leon (Miami).
Anyway Columbus in this case is not a particular symbol for any particular european colonization (spanish, english, french or whatever). In my opinion is an international and human symbol of a discover who changed the world history.
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