The Boston Globe, October 3rd, 1999
John Yemma is the Globe's assistant to the editor for special projects. It was just another day in paradise. Columbus and his men were lolling in the Bahamas. The natives were swimming back and forth to the ships, offering the sailors parrots, souvenir spears, and bits ofcotton thread. But, well, that wasn't exactly the plan. Then, on October 13, 1492, during yet another meet-and-greet session, Columbus noticed something. A few of the natives were wearing nose rings, he wrote in his diary. He looked closer. Gold! The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria blew out of port and spent the next few ...
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