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fromSlate Magazine
2 weeks ago

There's a Wild Part of the Thanksgiving Story That's Been Invisible to Us for Centuries. Until Now.

The Columbian Exchange transferred plants, animals, and microbes, reshaping foods and causing devastating disease, while also altering fermented beverages through yeast transfer.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

A Brief History of Human Migration

Just over 500 years ago, on 3 August of 1492, Christopher Columbus, the admiral from Genoa underwritten by Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain, set off on the first of 4 trips across the Atlantic. He sailed from Iberia to the Caribbean, then on to the South and Central American mainlands. Colonies were founded by Columbus and his younger brother Bartholomew; waves of colonists followed in their wake.
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