Six months after Christopher Columbus set sail from Europe across the Atlantic Ocean in hopes of finding a new trade route to Asia, he found himself off of the coast of the Dominican Republic in what would later be called the New World. While Columbus is simultaneously celebrated and vilified for “discovering” the Americas, he does happen to hold a far less controversial milestone: the first to report a real-life mermaid sighting. But as you’re probably aware, Columbus’ mermaid wasn’t a mermaid at all, it was the portly manatee.
In a journal entry, Columbus reported that the mermaids were “not half as beautiful as they are painted,” which may be one of the biggest understatements in history. Columbus isn’t the first sailor who thought a manatee was a mythical creature. Many sailors from around Columbus’ era reported seeing mermaids.
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I guess we’re also supposed to forget he was due to testify in the civil suit hearing against the PD, too.
that’s some BS
This was a gang reprisal, plain and simple. By which I mean the Dallas Police Department are a criminal gang which murders innocent people in their own homes and then murders witnesses who testify against them; if we had a real President instead of a Tang-colored Mussolini impersonator the FBI would be all over this.
