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2. Now that it's suspected via DNA that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe ...
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 10:17 PM
Oct 2024
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/columbus-was-sephardic-jew-western-europe-study-finds-rcna175188

Let's stop the dumbass anti-Italian hate that has been going on.

The magnitude of this is chronicled in How Italians became 'White'
https://archive.md/avHAQ
as mentioned above. (also paywalled, so see https://archive.md/ufnu0 )

Finally, who knows where the name "America" is derived? (spoiler)

It's from explorer Amerigo Vespucci, and we're damn lucky the two continents aren't named Vespuccia.
Maybe "poochie" for short.




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