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color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">September 06, 2023, 13:41 GMT </span></p><div class="share-vertical" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><div class="fright share pull-right" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 30px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="sv-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #777777; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 18.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Manuel Rosa earns doctorate by showing that Columbus was not a Genoese wool weaver, as history books have presented for centuries</i></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 18.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/531511/rosa.png#1054x424" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><img height="256" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/531511/rosa.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="641" /></a></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 18.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">Source: https://noticias.uac.pt/manuel-da-silva-rosa-defendeu-provas-de-doutoramento-em-historia-insular-e-atlantica-seculos-xv-xx/</span></i></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">PONTA DELGADA, PORTUGAL, September 6, 2023/<a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a>/ -- On this day, 531 years ago, a fleet of three ships lifted anchor from Gomera island in the Canaries and set sail following a secret map that led them to the Caribbean. The Captain General of the Fleet became wrongly known as Christopher Columbus, a weaver from Genoa.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">“In the recent dissertation by Manuel Rosa, scrupulously respecting the sources, it is made clear the impossibility of (Cristóbal) Colón having been born into a family of Genoese weavers,” wrote João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, Chair of the Department of History and Full Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">The dissertation, CRISTOFORO COLOMBO versus CRISTÓBAL COLÓN, earned Manuel Rosa his PhD in Insular and Atlantic History from the University of the Azores. For Rosa, considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on Christopher Columbus, the bestowing of the degree comes after spending over 30 years investigating the life of America's legendary discoverer.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">The newly presented evidence proves that only a high nobleman could have married the discoverer’s Portuguese wife in 1479. Other documents prove that, in April 1493, the Italian printing press gave the noble navigator the mistaken identity of Christopher Columbus, the name of a Genoese weaver. The man Americans call Christopher Columbus was actually named Cristóbal Colón.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">“As we head toward Columbus Day, let’s celebrate the discovery by getting our facts straight about the discoverer,” said Rosa. “The navigator was a Portuguese nobleman, not a Genoese weaver, as Americans have been taught and as Italians erroneously promoted.”</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">Rosa began his historical journey during the Columbus quincentennial. He saw some seriously suspicious red flags regarding the accepted Genoese weaver Columbus narrative. The explorer supposedly was a lowly foreigner yet married an aristocratic Portuguese lady 14 years before becoming famous. A union between common weavers and nobles could have never happened. Not only would it have been unthinkable, but deaths would have resulted from it. The closer he delved into the facts, the more certain he became that we were not being told the truth. After 30 years he succeeded, not only in uncovering documents forged to support the lie of the wool-weaver, but all the necessary evidence that will rewrite the history books.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">Rosa completed his doctorate with guidance from doctors João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, chair of History at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Avelino de Freitas de Meneses, Full Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the University of the Azores. The seven-member jury approved the work unanimously and with distinction.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">Since 2006, Rosa has published nine history books in several countries, including "<a href="http://www.columbus-book.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Columbus: The Untold Story</a>" (2016), which is admired as perhaps the best and most authoritative work ever written about the discoverer of America. It received a 5-star review from Indie Reader, won an Independent Press Award in the category of Biography: Historical, Winner of the 2018 New York City Big Book Award and was named the Best World History Book of 2016 in the Huffington Post.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">Rosa affirms that the new history is all proven by documents that anyone can read and verify. The documents even reveal a secret discovery of the Americas by other parties who found land decades before the 1492 journey. </div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">And, one of the most interesting facts: Colón always knew he was not in India and never planned to sail to India at all. The voyage was a “false discovery” to trick Spain into believing America was India and the navigator lied to Spain and enlisted others, such as Amerigo Vespucci, to also lie. Why? Rosa has uncovered the documents that answer the why and how this ruse was executed as well.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">Rosa’s work is supported by the non-profit organization, <a href="http://www.cristovaocolon.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Association Cristovao Colon</a>. 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“It took 500 years to build the official "History of Columbus" and 21 years of scientific investigating to destroy it.”---Manuel Rosa</center>
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Looking for a good read on Columbus this Columbus Day? Manuel Rosa’s <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Columbus The Untold Story</em> may be the best and most authoritative book ever written on Columbus. And for us Steemians who are here shattering paradigms in social media and publishing, more good news: Rosa smashes all kinds of paradigms in his book.</div>
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The standard tale most of us taught and carry with us the rest of our lives is that Columbus started life in a family of indigent peasant wool-weavers in Genoa, at that time not part of Italy because Italy did not yet exist as a nation. At some point he boards a ship that gets sinks in a storm, and he manages to swim ashore in Portugal. In Portugal, this ignorant wool weaver who knows nothing and speaks no Portuguese climbs his way to the top of the Portuguese aristocracy and marries a princess. But instead of living happily ever after at the end of that fairy tale, he goes on to Spain where he dupes King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella into sponsoring him, who has never captained a ship, to lead a voyage to India by sailing in the wrong direction.</div>
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As Rosa points out in the book, and takes great lengths to explain in painstaking but compelling detail, this is a laughable fairy tale that couldn’t possibly have any basis in reality, especially within the restrictiveness of medieval society.</div>
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Rosa reviews the works of various proponents of the Genoese Columbus hypothesis, and soundly rejects all of them. As it turns out, almost all the evidence for the Genoese claims is either shabby at best, or fabricated at worst. At times the municipal government of Genoa enthusiastically produced fraudulent evidence to support the claim, bolster the Italian-American community, and of course, profit.</div>
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Rosa then goes on to present a new hypothesis. He digs deeply into previously ignored Portuguese archives, examines newly emerged documents, and reads over tens of thousands of documents and books in Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian and Polish. He’s not only a masterful researcher, but a master of languages as well. After 21 years of research into what he realized was a 500-year-old mystery of a man, and mission, and spy craft and espionage of the highest order, Rosa puts the pieces together like no one else before him has been able to. It’s almost as if the real history had been deliberately suppressed, and Rosa tells us why. Even his English edition is hard to come by, being available only from his own website.</div>
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Let’s take a look at Rosa’s own boiler plate to see how thoroughly he’s stirred the pot of professional academia (He uses the Spanish Colon to refer to Columbus):</div>
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• All contemporaries agree Colon had expert sailing knowledge at par with the expert Portuguese pilots of the day<br />
• He continued his secret communications with the King of Portugal while in Spain<br />
• He intentionally made false statements to Spain regarding India and enlisted others like Amerigo Vespucci to do the<br />
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• He hid his real name real name and nationality not from the kings, but from us, the public at large.<br />
• He always knew he was not in India and he never planned to reach India.<br />
• The last will of 1498 said to be written by Colon is a forgery written 90 years after his death<br />
• His wife not just a Portuguese noble, but at the top of the aristocracy.<br />
• Historians don’t believe Columbus sailed to the New World in 1477. We show he did<br />
• Columbus lied about the sinking of the Santa Maria. He deliberately sabotaged and marooned to strand the<br />
Queen’s men<br />
• Rather than rejecting Columbus’ claims, King Joao II of Portugal helped plan the journey because it was a psy op<br />
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• It took 500 years to construct the lie and over 20 years to destroy it.<br />
• Just as James Bond has the codename “007,” Columbus’ codename was Cristobal Colon<br />
• Columbus went to great lengths to conceal his true name because he was on a secret mission for Portugal to lure<br />
Spain away from India and secure Portugal’s monopoly.</div>
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These are some extraordinary claims the author makes, and yet he meticulously supports them throughout the book. Normally I would say he does it in excruciating detail, but there is nothing excruciating about this book at all. Every detail is a compelling fact that leaves you begging for the next one as the plot advances. It reads not only like a historical work, but as a spy thriller and adventure story as well.</div>
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Rosa travels some exciting side trails too that no Columbus researcher ever even noticed before let alone dared to venture down. He informs us that Portugal was the last Templar state in Europe, that its Kings were regularly excommunicated from the Church and didn’t care! He takes inside the Templar lodges where we learn the secrets of their membership and operations. We witness diplomatic intrigue in England, France and the Vatican. The most surprising, and important, side trip of all is to the Polish court during their war against the Ottomans.</div>
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The book is chock full of reproduced documents and color plates that support Rosa’s thesis. He conducts numerous DNA tests to verify and repudiate relations and descendants. Being Portuguese himself and a genealogical researcher, he brings unique insights and understandings to the Columbus story that, frankly, academic historians just aren’t capable of.</div>
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If you love history, and especially alternative history, this will be one of the most stunning books you ever pick up. If you love conspiracy theory, this book makes them fact, at least the ones it deals with. If you love mysteries and spy novels, this real-life case will keep you riveted.</div>
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It’s already shaking up academia with its meticulously developed case and undeniably powerful evidence. It’s too bad Manuel Rosa is not a lawyer, because his opposition would detest his ability to build a case. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough.</div>
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Buy it from Rosa himself and get a signed edition here: <a href="http://www.columbus-book.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1a5099; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">http://www.columbus-book.com/</a>. I did.</div>
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Join us for dinner and discussion with Manuel Rosa, author of <b><i>COLUMBUS- the Untold Story</i></b>.</div>
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Christopher Columbus's origins have long been shrouded in mystery for be utilized an assumed identity in Spain and continuously hid and lied about his past. Schoolbooks teach that the navigator was a poor Italian from a Genoese family of peasant wool weavers. Over the centuries there were claims that Columbus was a native of Greece, Spain, France, Scotland and even Jewish but according to new evidence, Columbus was none of the above for he hailed from Polish royalty.</div>
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Hear the latest evidence from Columbus expert Manuel Rosa, author of COLUMBUS. The Untold Story, who has spent 25-years investigating historical documents in various countries and bas unearthed unknown facts which are turning the Columbus history upside-down. "Our whole understanding of Christopher Columbus has for 500 years been based on misinformation. We couldn't solve the mystery because we were looking for the wrong man, following lies that were spread intentionally to bide his true identity," Mr. Rosa told The Daily Telegraph.</div>
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Rosa will present new insights into ulterior motives for the epic 1492 voyage across the sea. Columbus was not in search of the real India at all, but was acting as a double-agent with the secret mission of taking the Spanish crown, Portugal's only European enemy, as far away from India as possible. In this secret mission, the navigator was a true James Bond whose successful lie of America being India managed to fool the world for five centuries.</div>
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Manuel Rosa is a Portuguese-American historian and author who emigrated from the Azores to Boston in 1973. A graphic artist working for Atlantic Monthly and Boston Magazine, he became an IT Professional with Lockheed Martin and now works at Duke University. Mr. Rosa has lectured at European and American universities, has advised UNESCO and the Haitian government on matters related to Columbus, bas appeared on BBC, the Travel Channel's Expedition Unknown, on NPR, and many other media and foreign language documentaries.</div>
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Join us for a stimulating and entertaining evening about world history that you won 't want to miss.</div>
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Guests are welcome. RSVP to kstrunk@fbtlaw.com or call 513-651-6166. FPLC, Brueggeman Center, and World Affairs Council members-$25 / guests-$30. Pay at event or send check (payable to FPLC) to Joe Dehner, 3300 Great American Tower, 301 E. 4th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202.</div>
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The Enigmatic "Christopher Columbus" Now Conclusively Identified, Finds Association Cristovao Colon</div>
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<i>Recently established facts about his origins and accomplishments prove that truth can indeed be stranger than fiction.</i></div>
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Durham, NC, May 16, 2016 --(<a href="http://www.pr.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">PR.com</a>)-- Generations of schoolchildren have been taught the archetypal story of an Italian, peasant wool-weaver’s son who discovered the New World in 1492. Depicted as a man of little knowledge, a clueless navigator, and a bumbler of legendary stubbornness – refusing to admit he'd never reached India – "Columbus" has long been seen as a model visionary, a near-mythical figure who exemplifies why one should never give up on one's dreams, however misguided they may be.<br />
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This and much else that's generally believed about the world's most famous explorer can now be dismissed as bunkum.<br />
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Over recent decades, a mass of data has been assembled from widespread and disparate sources, inferences pieced together, and an argument constructed that's as persuasive as it is fascinating and astonishing.<br />
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Like the proverbial train wreck in slow motion, paradigm shifts in how the world understands major events and personalities appear explosive in hindsight only. As history and human awareness actually run their course, any major insight – and the scrutiny that led to its occurrence, especially when the insight transcends deeply held beliefs – will almost always face irrational resistance from the guardians of respectable conventionality. As a rule, the wave of change enters mass consciousness some time after the quantum shift in Received Opinion has occurred.<br />
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So it is with the explosion of the "Christopher Columbus" myth – built up by long accretion to this faulty rendering of "Cristóbal Colón," itself the pseudonym of a controversial, almost sphinx-like man who really did make those famous, trans-Atlantic voyages – but whom history so far has represented in a manner that could scarcely be more at odds with what the facts now show. According to Manuel Rosa, the world's foremost authority on "Christopher Columbus," not only was the immortal navigator of royal blood, but the Catholic Monarchs of Spain – whom "Columbus" adroitly deceived for more than twenty years – participated in a far-flung conspiracy to hide his true identity.<br />
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"Considering the sheer number of people who've been misled," says Rosa, "the audacious scope of the original deception, the magnitude of the misapprehensions that gathered around it over time, and the fact that it's taken half a millennium for the real identity of 'Columbus' to emerge, his real achievement was beyond doubt one of the most extraordinarily successful, double-agent spy missions in all of history."<br />
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Rosa is not alone in this radical revisionism. Distinguished maritime historian João Abel da Fonseca says, "The evidence Rosa presented is so plentiful that one merely needs to enumerate it to come to this obvious conclusion. Columbus' high nobility birth is an issue that is no longer worth wasting our time debating."<br />
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Professor Trevor Hall, who specializes in 15th and 16th century Portuguese contacts with West Africa, supports the new paradigm: "Columbus was a Portuguese spy for King João II."<br />
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No less an authority than Manuela Mendonça, President of the Portuguese Academy of History, has publicly affirmed that, "Columbus was a Portuguese-born noble belonging to the house of Viseu."<br />
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The nucleus of this very complex and broad-based argument appeared ten years ago, when Rosa's first book – the 640-page O Mistério Colombo Revealdo (The Columbus Mystery Revealed) – came out in Portuguese. Over the next few years, highly acclaimed translations appeared in Spanish, Polish and Lithuanian.<br />
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"This book . . . will, with absolute certainty, be talked about for a long time," says University of Valladolid Professor D. Felix Martinez Llorente.<br />
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With nearly 200 pages of stunning new material, the special, limited edition that's being released this month – for the first time in English – promises to be another, enduringly provocative conversation piece.<br />
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On May 20th, to commemorate the 510th anniversary of "Columbus’" death, Manuel Rosa will present a lecture, "Who Really Was Columbus?" at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. The event includes a reception, dinner, and discussion following the lecture.<br />
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In case you're unable to attend, while supplies last, you may still order Columbus: The Untold Story through Amazon – or directly from its New Jersey sponsor, Nowy Dziennik, Polish Daily News.<br />
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About The Author: Manuel Rosa is a Portuguese-American, investigative historian and author who emigrated from the Azores to the Boston area in 1973. He currently lives in North Carolina and works at Duke University’s Cancer Institute.<br />
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Mr. Rosa received the Boston Globe’s Art Merit Award in 1976, the Lockheed Martin Lightning Award in 2002, and the American Institute of Polish Culture’s “Special Recognition” Award in 2015.<br />
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Rosa has spent a quarter century investigating America's legendary "discoverer." He has authored five books on Columbus in several languages other than English and has appeared on BBC, NPR, the Travel Channel's "Expedition Unknown," and numerous foreign-language media. His work was featured on the cover of Newsweek's Polish subsidiary in 2011.<br />
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Mr. Rosa has advised UNESCO and the Haitian government on matters related to Columbus' lost ship, the Santa María. He has lectured on Columbus at American and European universities.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.cristovaocolon.com/">ASSOCIATION CRISTÓVÃO COLÓN</a></b>, a non-profit organization,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">in collaboration with <b><a href="http://www.dziennik.com/" target="_blank">Nowy Dziennik</a> – Polish Daily News, </b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">is funding the publication of the English language Edition of Manuel Rosa's award-winning and groundbreaking book </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><i>COLUMBUS THE UNTOLD STORY.</i></b></div>
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For 10 years now, Mr. Rosa has been fighting the establishment and its Matrix trying to convince US Publishers to make his research available to the American public, all to no avail. Therefore, we are going directly to you. We feel you deserve to know the truth and that because you want to know the truth, you will support us in bringing "<b>COLUMBUS. The Untold Story</b>" to American readers by pre-ordering your copy today.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr. Rosa's first book on Columbus was publish in 2006 in Portugal. He next published "COLÓN. La historia nunca contada" (COLUMBUS. The Untold Story) in 2009 in Spain, then in Poland as "KOLUMB. Historia nieznana," which made the cover of Newsweek, selling out in months, and lastly in Lithuania as "KOLUMBAS. Atskleistoji istorija." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">COLUMBUS. The Untold Story reveals incredible hidden secrets of the life of Columbus, his double-mission in Spain and the surprisingly sophisticated world of fifteenth century, geopolitical politics and espionage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>Another nutty conspiracy theory!! That’s what I first supposed. I now believe that Christopher Columbus is guilty of a huge fraud carried out over two decades.</i>” - James T. McDonough, Jr., Ph.D. Professor for 31 years at St. Joseph’s University.</span></div>
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Miltiades Varvounis, distinguished Greek-Polish historian, researcher and author wrote in an extensive article about Manuel Rosa's book on Christopher Columbus saying that the book, "<i>is a magnum opus and by no means should be considered a work of pseudo history or just another source of nutty conspiracy theories. Rosa's numerous reliable findings and solid theories would make Sherlock Holmes jealous. The History of Columbus has many mixed-up facts and personalities, and maybe the time has come for the discoverer's life to be finally rewritten.</i>" - Source Lithuanian Heritage Magazine, (January/February 2913) pg. 28.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This 25-year-long investigation has unearthed unknown facts regarding historical documents discovered in various countries, the information that the supposedly Italian Columbus did not even use Italian in his letters, not even to his brothers, neither did his brothers write Italian to Columbus. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Add to this the sheer impossibility of a peasant Columbus being able to marry into the socially-superior nobility in Portugal plus have direct access to several monarchs in order to carry out his quest and it becomes apparent how the history we learned was not accurate. In short, academics now are forced to acknowledge that the Discoverer of America was no simple wool-weaver’s son from Genoa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>A Portuguese historian believes he has solved the 500-year-old mystery of Columbus' true identity after a thorough investigation of medieval documents and chronicles. The origins of the man who discovered the Americas has long been a subject of speculation. Contemporary accounts named his birth place as the Italian port of Genoa to a family of wool weavers but over the centuries it has been claimed that he was a native of Greece, Spain, France, Portugal and even Scotland. Others claimed his origins were hidden because he was Jewish or secretly working as a double agent for the Portuguese royal family. But the latest theory suggests that the great navigator, who died in 1506 after four voyages to the New World, was in fact of royal blood: the son of King Vladislav III who was supposedly slain in the Battle of Varna in 1444 ... fled to live in exile on the island of Madeira where he was known as "Henry the German" and married a Portuguese noblewoman</i>. - From Balzekas Museum announcement of the Lithuanian book, Chicago, IL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This Limited Edition of "COLUMBUS. The Untold Story," is an unabridged translation from the 2014 Lithuanian book in its unedited form and has been augmented with surprising new information gathered over the last few years, solidifying Rosa's therory that Columbus was born of Royal Blood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are confident that you won't be disappointed with the incredible information Mr. Rosa's book presents regarding Columbus and his 1492 voyage to the Americas. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">“The book is an extensive and well-documented work on the still-enigmatic figure of Cristóbal Colón, with evocative and notorious contributions that will, with absolute certainty, be talked about for a long time.”</span></div>
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"Any historian who is lucid (also if he is not lucid he can hardly be called a historian), given the knowledge of the social relations that prevailed at the time, cannot have any doubt of the FACT, that is more than obvious, that CRISTÓBAL COLÓN HAD TO BE SOMEONE BORN OF THE HIGHEST NOBILITY. Regarding this fact, END OF DISCUSSION. The evidence is now so plentiful that one merely needs to enumerate it to come to this obvious conclusion. His high nobility birth is an issue that is no longer worth wasting our time debating."</div>
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–João Abel da Fonseca, Deputy Secretary-General of the Marine Academy, Secretary of the Class of Maritime History, Academic Correspondent of the Portuguese Academy of History, Vice-President of the Division of History of the Geographical Society of Lisbon, and Chairman of the Council of the Institute of European Culture and Atlantic</div>
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“I am a professor of History who specializes in 15th and 16th century Portuguese contacts with West Africa. I do Portuguese paleography, and my research supports your conclusions that Colón was a Portuguese spy for King João II.”</div>
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"Without a doubt, Manuel Rosa shoved a stick into an anthill destroying a great design. Its publication evokes a historical tsunami, which, not only turns upside-down the history of the discovery of America, but also makes one reflect on the current textbooks in the canon of history . . .The book is extensive and you cannot approach it lightly, or seeking sensationalism. It requires the reader to focus, reflect deeply, persevere through all the arguments put forward by the author, which consist of up-to-now unknown facts of the biography of Christopher Columbus."</div>
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"I agree with Manuel Rosa’s research one hundred per cent ... Nothing invalidates the concept that he could have been born in Portugal.”</div>
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"No serious historian, after reading the original Portuguese, Spanish and Italian documents from the 15th-16th Centuries and after having done a proper study of Colón's original heraldic shield, can be indifferent to the truth, and continue insisting in sanctioning unequivocally what others had written prior to the new evidence. Manuel Rosa made an exceptional investigation methodological and well documented."</div>
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“Finally we have a work of investigation into the history of the discovery of America that is amply documented and shows the real fraud created by the proponents of the accepted tale of an ignorant Columbus. It offers abundant clues to unraveling the great mystery that surrounds the «discoverer of America» and puts forth the long needed change in the perspective of the analysis of this historical figure.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</b></span> Currently considered the world's leading expert on the life of Columbus, Manuel Rosa is a Portuguese-American historian and author who emigrated from the Azores to the Boston area in 1973. In his early professional life he was employed as a graphic artist working on books and national magazines including Atlantic Monthly and Boston Magazine. He later became an IT Professional employed by Lockheed Martin and currently works at Duke University. He is also a recipient of the 1976 Boston Globe’s Art Merit Award and the Lockheed Martin Lightning Award. Mr Rosa has lectured at European and American universities, has advised UNESCO and the Haitian government on matters related to Columbus's lost ship, has appeared on BBC, on the Travel Channel’s Expedition Unknown, on NPR, and many other media and foreign language documentaries. </div>
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Fluent in several languages, Mr. Rosa has spent a quarter century investigating and searching out the facts concerning Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America utilizing a non-biased scientific approach that has taken him to Portugal, Spain, Dominican Republic, Poland, Lithuania and many places in-between in a relentless pursuit of the truth. The new information he garnered about Christopher Columbus resulted in the publishing of his first book (of 640 pages) in 2006.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Sept. 30, 2015</span> - Historian Manuel Rosa will discuss the true origin and heritage of Christopher Columbus at noon on Thursday, Oct. 8, in the <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/student-experience/student-services-and-student-centers/carl-hansen-student-center/" style="color: #4da6ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Carl Hansen Student Center</a>, Room 225, 275 Mount Carmel Ave. </div>
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Rosa's lecture, sponsored by the <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/central-european-institute/" style="color: #4da6ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Central European Institute</a> at Quinnipiac, will present new evidence that shows Columbus was not Italian, but Polish royalty. In 1991, Rosa began a scientific investigation of the life of Columbus taking him to countries, including Portugal, Spain, Poland and the Dominican Republic. He was the only Portuguese historian involved with DNA studies of Columbus' bones at the University of Granada in Spain. </div>
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"We are very excited to host Mr. Rosa at Quinnipiac," said <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/academics/colleges-schools-and-departments/college-of-arts-and-sciences/departments-and-faculty/department-of-economics/about-our-faculty/economics-faculty/faculty-detail/?School=BU&Dept=EC&Person=28254" style="color: #4da6ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Christopher Ball</a>, director of the Central European Institute. "His lecture on the true origins of Christopher Columbus looks fascinating indeed and typifies the kind of critical thinking and constant questioning we encourage here."</div>
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Rosa's first book, "The Columbus Mystery Revealed," was published in 2006. His latest book, "KOLUMB. Historia nieznana" (COLUMBUS. The Untold Story), was published in 2012 and was a bestseller in Poland. </div>
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<a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/storozynski-named-polish-chair-of-the-central-european-institute/" style="color: #4da6ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Alexander Storozynski</a>, distinguished scholar and Polish chair of the Central European Institute, said, "Thanks to much historical digging, Manuel Rosa offers a fascinating look at the roots of Columbus. His work has gained international attention. While the book has been published in several countries, it deserves to be picked up by a major American publishing house a well." </div>
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Rosa is the recipient of the 1976 Boston Globe's Art Merit Award and the Lockheed Martin Lightning Award. He currently works at Duke University. </div>
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<a href="http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/detalle_revista.asp?id_noticia=416163" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">A will without a way. A critical review of how the Christopher Columbus Mayorazgo of 1498 continues to perpetrate a fraud against historians and </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; text-align: justify;">history. (RI §416163)</span></a></h1>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The Last Will and Testament of Christopher Columbus dated 1498, known as the Mayorazgo (Majorat), materialized in Spain decades after the discoverer died. The document was presented during the Columbus inheritance lawsuit by an Italian imposter named Balthazar Colombo who was not a family relation. The document includes the statement “being I born in Genoa,” which has been utilized as the crucial proof that the Discoverer of America was born in Genoa, Italy. However, neither the contents of the Mayorazgo nor the circumstances of its creation pass scientific scrutiny. It turns out to be <a href="http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/detalle_revista.asp?id_noticia=416163" target="_blank">a fraudulent document</a> invented by Balthazar Colombo in his shameless effort to steal from the discoverer’s legitimate heirs the immense inheritance of the Dukedom of Veragua, Admiral of the Indies and Marquis of Jamaica.</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>Keywords:</b> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/buscador.asp?id=15&meta=%22Christopher%20Columbus%20Last%20Will%22" style="font-family: inherit;">Christopher Columbus Last Will</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/buscador.asp?id=15&meta=%22Majorat%20of%201498%22" style="font-family: inherit;">Majorat of 1498</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/buscador.asp?id=15&meta=%22Balthazar%20Colombo%20as%20impostor%22" style="font-family: inherit;">Balthazar Colombo as impostor</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/buscador.asp?id=15&meta=%22Columbus%20Inheritance%20Lawsuit%22" style="font-family: inherit;">Columbus Inheritance Lawsuit</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/buscador.asp?id=15&meta=%22Succession%20to%20the%20House%20of%20Veragua%22" style="font-family: inherit;">Succession to the House of Veragua</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/buscador.asp?id=15&meta=%22Fraud%20and%20Forgery%20in%20Medieval%20Tribunals%22" style="font-family: inherit;">Fraud and Forgery in Medieval Tribunals</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/buscador.asp?id=15&meta=%22Credibility%20of%20the%20Raccolta%20Colombiana%22" style="font-family: inherit;">Credibility of the Raccolta Colombiana</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/buscador.asp?id=15&meta=%22Legal%20Battles%20of%20the%20Admiral%20of%20Indies%22" style="font-family: inherit;">Legal Battles of the Admiral of Indies</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/buscador.asp?id=15&meta=%22Misgivings%20of%20Genoese%20Columbus%22" style="font-family: inherit;">Misgivings of Genoese Columbus</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/buscador.asp?id=15&meta=%22Col%C3%B3n%20vs.%20Colombo%20vs.%20Columbus.%22" style="font-family: inherit;">Colón vs. Colombo vs. Columbus.</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">; </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Christopher Columbus, the first European explorer to land on the island the indigenous Arawak people called Ayiti, claimed in his diaries that his flagship, the Santa Maria, hit a reef off the coast near what is now the town of Caracol on Christmas eve 1492. He then supposedly used the ship’s wreckage to build a fort called the “Navidad,” no trace of which has ever been found despite many attempts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This official story is all a lie, asserts award-winning Portuguese- American historian Manuel Rosa, who has spent the past 24 years researching the life of Columbus and his historic voyage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In fact, Columbus beached the Santa Maria on the shore at Caracol and possibly built a moat around it, turning the ship itself into the Navidad, Mr. Rosa says.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">When Columbus left Ayiti (which he renamed Hispaniola) to return to Spain with the Nina and the Pinta, he purposely fired a cannon ball through the Santa Maria’s hull to make it impossible for the 39 men he left behind to flee the island. Three of them were envoys of the Spanish royal court who could have revealed the truth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">On June 9 and 10, Mr. Rosa will visit Caracol with a television crew from the Travel Channel’s show “Expedition Unknown” to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">search for evidence of his theory, which he has presented in two books: “The Columbus Mystery Revealed” (2006) and “Columbus: The Untold Story” (2009). The books have been published to great acclaim in Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Lithuanian. (Mr. Rosa is currently looking for a publisher for the English version of the latter book, for which he has a finished manuscript.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr. Rosa is asking any Haitians round Caracol who may (<a href="http://haiti-liberte.com/archives/volume8-46/The_Book/index.html">Continue Reading at Haiti Liberté's website</a>, see on page 9)..... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In fact, his father was a Polish king, argues Columbus expert Manuel
Rosa. Rosa holds that the adventurer’s father was King Vladislav III, who was
not killed at the 1444 Battle of Varna, as thought. Instead, old Portuguese
documents support Rosa’s theory that King Vladislav went into secret exile,
married a Portuguese noblewoman, and had a son who, argues Rosa, went on to
become known as Columbus. Columbus lied about his own identity to protect his
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After 23 years of research and with five
academic books published, Manuel Rosa sets out the case that conventional
understanding of Columbus’ history is not only misleading but utilizes false
documents in support of an invented Fairy Tale about a Genoese wool-weaver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">THE POLISH AMERICAN BUSINESS CLUB, THE POLISH INSTITUTE
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #fb00ff;">WHEN: </span>Columbus
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Space limited. RSVP to <a href="mailto:aleks.slabisz@gmail.com">aleks.slabisz@gmail.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr. Rosa’s 23-year investigation unearthed
unknown facts regarding historical documents discovered in various countries, the
information that the supposedly Italian Columbus did not even use Italian in
his letters, not even to his brothers. Add to this the sheer impossibility of a
peasant Columbus being able to marry into the socially-superior nobility in
Portugal plus have direct access to several monarchs in order to carry out his
quest and it becomes apparent how the history we learned was not accurate. In
short, academics now are forced to acknowledge that the Discoverer of America
was no simple wool-weaver’s son from Genoa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">According to Mr. Rosa’s research, Columbus was
in fact the son of a Portuguese noblewoman, and the mysterious Henrique Alemao,
a false Portuguese name utilized by none other than Wladyslaw III, former King
of Poland who lived incognito on the Portuguese Island of Madeira.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">ABOUT MANUEL ROSA:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Manuel Rosa is a Portuguese-American historian
and author who emigrated from the Azores to the Boston area in 1973 with his parents.
In his early professional life he was employed as a graphic artist working on
books and national magazines including The Atlantic Monthly and Boston Magazine
and currently works at Duke University. He is also a recipient of the 1976
Boston Globe’s Art Merit Award and the Lockheed Martin Lightning Award. For the
last 23 years, Mr. Rosa has investigated and searched out the facts concerning
the Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America utilizing a non-biased
scientific approach that has taken him to Portugal, Spain, Dominican Republic,
Poland and many places in-between in a relentless pursuit of the truth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The new information he garnered about
Christopher Columbus resulted in the publishing of his first book in 2006, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">O Mistério Colombo Revelado in Portugal</b>,
followed by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">COLÓN. La Historia nunca
contada </b>published in Spain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In May 2012, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kolumb. Historia Nieznana</b> became a bestseller in Poland and in
February 2014 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kolumbas. Atskleistoji
istorija</b> was published in Lithuania. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Another
nutty conspiracy theory!! That’s what I first supposed. I now believe that
Christopher Columbus is guilty of a huge fraud carried out over two decades</i>.”
- James T. McDonough, Jr., Ph.D. Professor for 31 years at St. Joseph’s
University. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>Mr.
Rosa’s tenacity as an investigative historian results in an undeniable case for
Columbus being a highly skilled, international spy whose real identity and mission
is, only now, coming to light,”!</i> said Thom MacNamara, production executive,
who is adapting the script for Chelsea Multi-Media.! “<i>We believe this will be a blockbuster, thriller film that will reveal
the surprisingly sophisticated world of fifteenth century, geopolitical
espionage.</i>”!</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227714866297039878.post-66723920012141165832014-06-07T12:38:00.000-05:002014-06-07T13:23:24.680-05:00Haitian Shipwreck is not Columbus’s Santa Maria - A Response<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>News claims that the shipwreck found off the Northern coast of Haiti is Columbus’s famous Santa Maria flagship are not accurate according to the documentation.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Contrary to recent news, the wreck found off the Northern coast of Haiti is not Columbus’s famous Santa Maria flagship because the vessel did not sink, as Columbus claimed. The flagship was purposely dragged up onto the beach of Caracol, re-christened Natividad and ordered shot side-to-side by a cannonball on January 2, 1493. This cannonball intentionally disabled and marooned the Santa Maria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In stunning rebuttal to the supposed finding of the Santa Maria by treasure hunter Barry Clifford, historian Manuel Rosa goes into great detail in his book “Columbus-The Untold Story.” In the comprehensive book, Rosa details how Columbus continuously lied to Queen Isabella, including evidence of how the Santa Maria never sank off the coast of Haiti and gives three reasons why Columbus had to maroon the Santa Maria:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Furthermore, Rosa asserts that the explorer made sure to take back all the pilots with him, so that, if those marooned could repair the hole in the ship’s hull, they would not know how to reach Spain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Columbus-The Untold Story has been published in four languages in Europe and seeks an English-language publisher. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Documented in great detail in Chapter 10 of Rosa’s 480-page manuscript* and accompanied by freehand illustrations drawn by Columbus himself is a map of Española (A) during the first voyage of 1492. Map (B) clearly shows the location of the ship, which Columbus called Natividad. When compared with Google satellite images of today (C), one can see how well the two maps match up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1- Columbus’s own Ship Log declares that the Santa Maria was “en tierra”, that is “on land”, on January 2, 1493.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2- The banks where the Santa Maria supposedly sank on Christmas Day, 1492, are 6 miles offshore. How did the supposedly sunken ship end up onshore 8 days later?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Was it all a ruse to trick the Spanish Crown into sending him on a second voyage? Was the deception a pretense for marooning the Spanish crown's overseers because they could have blown Columbus's cover had they returned to court with him? Perhaps the truth is Christopher Columbus was not working for Spain, but against it. The totality of the evidence presented in Rosa’s book suggests Columbus was a secret agent; fiercely loyal to Portugal’s king, Isabella’s nemesis. All of Columbus’s actions were calculated to prevent scrutiny, hide his tracks and allow for Portugal to control the spice trade of India, while denying Spain access to that same route. By marooning his own ship, Columbus was free to report to the court of Queen Isabella whatever lies he wanted without the court’s overseers from the 1492 voyage contradicting him, exactly as he did.</span></div>
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In his logbook, Columbus recorded the ship lost on coral banks, located one and a half leagues (6 miles) offshore from the beach where the Santa Maria was shot on January 2. On January 2, the ship was safe and sound on today’s Caracol Beach. Columbus wrote, “porque ella quedó sana como quando partió” because she was as sound as when she had left (Spain). However, he shot it with a cannonball. How could a ship that sank six miles offshore, lying on its side and taking on water, as he cleverly described it in the logbook, succeed in reaching a sandy beach six miles away in order to be shot by a cannon? This feat would require a large crane and diesel powered tugboats available only some 400 years later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Therefore, the Santa Maria could only get to Caracol Beach under its own power and thus, it never sank or ran aground, as the explorer declared to the court. The whole report of the ship sinking on those banks off the coast of Haiti was a lie to not have to explain why he marooned the crew and why the court’s overseers did not return with him to Spain. It is only by locating the banks on a map, following details from the Ship Log, that one can clearly see Columbus’s deception.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the Santa Maria’s anchors, today in a Haitian museum at Port-au-Prince, was found at a plantation in Limonade, just 6 miles from Caracol. How could such a heavy anchor have floated to land from 6 miles offshore? Furthermore, the bell from the Santa Maria was found in 1994 off the coast of Portugal, near the ship San Salvador, which sank in 1555. Many puzzled over how the Santa Maria’s bell survived when the rest of the ship sank. The only answer is that the Santa Maria never sank, as Rosa claims to show. When the Haitian natives decided to burn the Santa Maria in late 1493, the bell survived because it was metal, and was recovered by Columbus upon his return to Natividad on November 28, 1493. The bell had been stored in Santo Domingo until it was shipped to Spain in 1555.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The fact remains that anyone looking for the Santa Maria in the ocean has not fully understood Columbus’s Ship Log, nor the ruse he was taking part in, and is wasting their time since the ship was left on land and was later burned to ashes by the natives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <b><i>O Mistério Colombo Revelado</i></b>, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Portugal, 2006 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(ISBN-13: 978-9728605865)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <b><i>Colombo Português-Novas Revelações</i></b>, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Portugal, 2009 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(ISBN-13: 978-9898092533)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <b><i>Colón. La Historia Nunca Contada</i></b>, Spain, 2010 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(ISBN-13: 978-9898092663)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <b><i>Kolumb. Historia Nieznana</i></b>, Poland, 2012 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(ISBN-13: 978-8375107227)</span></div>
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<b>May 1, 2014, Dallas Texas CMC announces rights deal for <i>Columbus - The Untold Story</i>.
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Notable author Manuel Rosa has agreed to terms with film & television production company CMC for the rights to Rosa’s sensational book, <i>Columbus - The Untold Story</i>. The deal affords CMC the world-wide rights to produce a variety of multimedia products emanating from the book and unveils the works of Manuel Rosa to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
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CMC President John Lage commented; “We have the highest expectations that the American people will be as fascinated with this depiction as they were with the Da Vinci Code. Be prepared. Everything you ever learned about Columbus was legend and fabricated for the European audience of the time because great sums of money and power were involved.” </div>
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James T. McDonough, Jr., a 31-year professor at St. Joseph’s University commented; "Another nutty conspiracy theory! That’s what I first supposed. I now believe that Columbus is guilty of a huge fraud carried out over decades." </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Was
Columbus Polish?</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">MONDAY,
OCTOBER 14, 2013, AT 5:00PM</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">THE
SECRET IDENTITY OF COLUMBUS: PEASANT TO VICEROY IN 33 DAYS</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Manuel
Rosa will be presenting a lecture at The Kosciuszko Foundation
de-shrouding the myth surrounding the man who discovered America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The
event, an extension of the Kosciuszko Foundation's partnership with Early Music
Foundation's New York Early Music Celebration 2013: Pro Musica Polonica, is
sure to raise thought-provoking inquiries into our assumed knowledge of
Christopher Columbus, the man!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SVU5BxpGyXY/Ujhhi6GAEiI/AAAAAAAACOw/ybehj5HRIJI/s1600/Untitled3.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SVU5BxpGyXY/Ujhhi6GAEiI/AAAAAAAACOw/ybehj5HRIJI/s1600/Untitled3.tiff" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">In THE
SECRET IDENTITY OF COLUMBUS: PEASANT TO VICEROY IN 33 DAYS Rosa sets out
to prove that Columbus' history has never been examined or questioned, and is
in fact misleading at best. Mr. Rosa's 22 year adventurous investigation
involved the discovery of unknown facts regarding historical documents, the
information that the supposedly Italian Columbus rarely even used the language
in his correspondences, and the sheer impossibility of a peasant Columbus being
able to marry into nobility and carry out his quest. In short, Columbus was no
simple wool-weaver's son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His
lectures, presented at universities, schools and organizations in Portugal,
Spain, Poland, Switzerland, and USA, are succeeding in convincing attendees
that the history of Columbus that we knew contained little truth and his books
have become the standard by which Columbus biographies are being
judged. Mr. Rosa was also the only Portuguese historian involved with DNA
studies of Columbus' bones at the University of Granada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr. Rosa
will be selling limited quantities of his book, published in Polish:
"KOLUMB. Historia Nieznana" and is due to release his
book, KOLUMBAS. ATSKLEISTA ISTORIJA in Lithuania (February 2014).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The
lecture will be held at the KF house on October 14th, to coincide with Columbus
Day. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="mailto:info@thekf.org?subject=RSVP%20for%20Was%20Columbus%20Polish?" style="background-color: white; color: #d9531e; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">RSVP by EMAIL</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://www.thekf.org/events/upcoming_events/was_columbus_polish/"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">http://www.thekf.org/events/upcoming_events/was_columbus_polish/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227714866297039878.post-7655812340669219202013-08-07T20:31:00.000-05:002013-09-05T15:20:09.954-05:00KOLUMBAS. Atskleista istorija ??<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">O MISTÉRIO COLOMBO REVELADO (Portugal, 2006)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">COLOMBO PORTUGUÊS-NOVAS REVELAÇÕES (Portugal, 2009)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">COLÓN: LA HISTORIA NUNCA CONTADA (Spain, 2010)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">KOLUMB. HISTORIA NIEZNANA (Poland, 2012)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">KOLUMBAS. ATSKLEISTA ISTORIJA (Lithuania, 2014)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227714866297039878.post-71097256126424816922013-03-24T09:41:00.001-05:002013-03-24T10:05:56.574-05:00Christopher Columbus’s True Identity Unmasked<di b="">By Jon Platakis - </di><b>Founder/Chairman of the National Lithuanian American Hall of Fame, exclusive for the <a href="http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/31724/christopher-columbuss-true-identity-unmasked-a-lithuanian-prince-201331724/">Lithuania Tribune</a></b>
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Will the National Lithuanian American Hall of Fame have Christopher Columbus as a new candidate for induction? The answer looks to be yes, according to a new theory that Columbus was the Portuguese-born son to the King of Poland, Hungary and Lithuania, Wladyslaw III.</div>
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How could this be true? The hypothesis supporting Columbus’s royal origins was first published in 2009 in the Spanish book “COLON: La Historia Nunca Contada,” and then in 2012 in the best-selling Polish book, “KOLUMB: Historia Nieznana,” both written by Manuel Rosa, a Portuguese-American historian and author who has been recasting the Columbus biography in the light of recently uncovered evidence.</div>
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The fact that Columbus used some 80 Portuguese toponyms to name the New World, and that he never wrote in Italian, but did write in Portuguese flavored Spanish, and referred to Portugal as his homeland constitute clues to his Portuguese identity. To substantiate the noble birth, Rosa points out that Columbus and his two brothers had easy access to four courts in Europe, and one brother even lived as a guest of the King of France, all of this long before 1492. Among the more intriguing new pieces of evidence, Rosa shows that the Last Will of 1498 (Mayorazgo or deed of primogeniture), where Columbus supposedly claimed to be “born in Genoa,” is a forgery written by a Genoese interloper long after Columbus died. Henry Harrisse had considered the 1498 Last Will a forgery from a later period, but Rosa was the first to prove that the document was falsified.</div>
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After reading the known biographies of Columbus, one realizes that there are enough bits and pieces to support the idea that Columbus, his biographer son Fernando, and the court of Spain made herculean efforts to obscure his true identity and origins. Columbus even changed his name in Spain to that of Cristóbal Colón in order to distance himself from his true lineage. Cristóbal Colón is the only name he ever used during his public life and there is no record in Spain of what his original name was. That by itself does not prove Columbus was royalty, but it appears that, if the identity was successfully obscured during his lifetime, it is almost impossible at this point in history to definitively prove Columbus’s true identity without forensic research. All that remains is the evidence that the obscuring was done and a few clues pointing to his true identity.</div>
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Over the centuries, many respected historians came up with different opinions about the true birthplace of Columbus. They had to speculate about what the truth might be since little evidence remains. The majority of scholars came to a conviction that Cristóbal Colón, discoverer, was the same person as Cristoforo Colombo, Genoese wool-weaver, while other historians supported their own convictions that the wool-weaver and the discoverer could not be the same person.</div>
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The Italian historian, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Emilio_Taviani" style="border: 0px; color: #027061; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Paolo Emilio Taviani</a>, fierce proponent of the Genoese Colombo wrote: “W<i>hat wild imaginings could have generated a Greek Columbus, an English Columbus, three French Columbuses, and, as if that were not enough, a Corsican Columbus, a Swiss Columbus, and three Portuguese Columbuses? For an explanation, we can look only to the immeasurable greatness of Columbus’s achievement and to its profound consequences on the course of human history.</i>”</div>
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Another historian, Felipe Fernández-Armesto wrote that “<i>The Catalan, French, Galician, Greek, Ibizan, Jewish, Majorcan,Polish, Scottish, and other increasingly silly Columbuses concocted by historical fantasists are agenda-driven creations.”</i> Like many, Fernández-Armesto, claimed that the<i>“evidence of Columbus’s origins in Genoa is overwhelming,”</i><i> </i>referring to certain Genoese documents purported to be “<i>beyond the possibility of doubt</i>” about Columbus’s early life. They claim those documents identify the discoverer Colón as the son of Domenico Colombo, a wool-weaver from Genoa.
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These Genoese documents were proudly published by the City of Genoa in 1892 and 1896 in a collection of books known by its short tile of <i>Raccolta Colombiana.</i> There one can clearly see that the Cristoforo Colombo of Genoa was by trade nothing more than a <i>lanaiolo</i>: a lowly wool-weaver, son of another wool-weaver.</div>
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Mr. Taviani and the other supporters of the Genoese Columbus, however, completely downplayed the fact that the discoverer was a man with extensive schooling who moved within noble circles and that, in Spain, Columbus’s origins were maintained secret from the public. Thus, the Genoese theory discarded many inconvenient truths and invented details to mesh the weaver’s life with the discoverer’s life.</div>
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“In actuality there should not even be a need to contest them, because anyone who spends a few hours looking at them will realize that the documents from Genoa are related to a completely different person and have nothing to do with the life of the discoverer. However, since those documents have been accepted for over a century as being related to the discoverer, one is forced to explain them,” Mr. Rosa stated.</div>
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When pressed for more specifics, he advises reading his books carefully as they cover 22 years of scientific research that tackle each issue step by step. “However”, he cautioned, “keep in mind that most of the documents in the <i>Raccolta Colombiana</i> are fodder and irrelevant to the solution of Columbus’s identity. Some of the documents do not even exist from the date they were supposedly created but are only referenced in other documents centuries later. Other documents are forged to add information that was not there initially.”</div>
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In fact, copies of documents that made it out of Genoa prior to the start of the Columbus controversy, such as Antonio Gallo’s chronicle, do not even mention Columbus, while Gallo’s copy found in Genoa today does. Of the four manuscripts that are attributed to Gallo, where the “Columbus brothers” are mentioned, (British Codex, Torino Codex, Civica Genoa Codex and Federici Codex) NOT ONE is from 1506, when Gallo wrote his chronicle. They are copies done in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Interestingly the Codex stored in the Library of Copenhagen “Ms. Reale antico fondo n. 2205″ the oldest writing from the sixteenth century – therefore written long before the British, Torino, Civica and Federici codexes – has nothing in it about “Columbus brothers”! Clearly Gallo had not written this additional text about Columbus before he died, someone added it later. The famous Asseretto Document was doctored in the Italian publications to remove several blank pages, fraudulently making it look like the text was continuous.</div>
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These are only some examples that show how unreliable the Genoese documents and the Raccolta Colombiana are to solving the mystery of Columbus’s identity. “What the Raccolta Colombiana did was help to cover up the truth for yet another 100 years” claims Rosa.</div>
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Considered one of today’s leading scholars on the life of Columbus, Mr. Rosa points out that Ferdinand Colón, the discoverer’s son, claimed that his father descended not only from Italian aristocracy, but from the legendary Roman General Colonius and that people were wrong to call him “Christopher Columbus” in Latin, warning that the correct Latin form is “Christopher <b>Colonus</b>.” While historians widely inferred that Christopher Columbus used this noble persona to ingratiate himself to the good graces of the Spanish court in an elaborate illusion to mask a humble weaver background, Rosa thinks Ferdinand was telling the truth. The historians, going against solid evidence in Spain and Portugal, came up with the wrong solution swapping “<i>Cristobal Colón” for a “genovés</i> Cristoforo Colombo.”</div>
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The particulars were not always obvious, but because of his familiarity with the Portuguese history of the discoveries and fluency in several languages, Rosa was able to see that something was not right in the official narrative. His biggest clue came when he learned that Columbus had married a Portuguese noblewoman in 1479, a full 14 years before becoming famous in Spain. Knowing that peasants and wool-weavers could never marry nobility, it was apparent something was not correct. By examining more carefully Columbus’s assumed identity, he was able to show how historians had made several simple mistakes that completely changed the course of their research.</div>
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First, they mistranslated the name Colón to Columbus, even though Ferdinand alerted us that Colón is not the same as Columbus. <i>Colombo</i> is Italian, <i>Colombe</i> is French, <i>Colom</i> is Catalan, <i>Palomo</i> is Spanish, <i>Pombo</i> is Portuguese and <i>Columbus</i> is Latin. All these names are the same for they mean <i>Pigeon</i>. However, the discoverer’s name was Colón, as in the English <i>colon</i>, and <i>semi-colon</i>, coming from the Greek κωλον (kólon) meaning <i>Member</i>, just as Ferdinand also informed us.</div>
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Second, although many contemporary Spanish writers referred to Cristobal Colón as<i> </i>“<i>ginovés</i>” historians missed the important point that in 15th Century Spain, <i>ginovés</i> was slang for “foreigner” and not necessarily confirmation that Columbus was from Genoa. These are two honest mistakes that have led historians in a wild-goose chase to Genoa.</div>
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Instead of relying on previous published biographies, Rosa went directly to the medieval sources from multiple kingdoms, plus ancient genealogy and heraldry, in order to cross-reference the historical events with the personalities. In addition, Rosa’s mastery of Spanish and Portuguese, allowed him a more accurate interpretation of these primary source documents, so often prone to errors of translation into English.</div>
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By reviewing the ancient documents, chronicles and manuscripts, and taking an active involvement in the DNA studies of Columbus’s bones at the University of Granada, Spain, Mr. Rosa was able to disprove the official narrative as nothing more than a fairytale which was based on repeated misinterpretations of the original facts. Nevertheless, the fact remains that Columbus married Filipa Moniz Perestrelo. Filipa was not only daughter of a high noble and Captain of the Portuguese Island of Porto Santo, but a member of the elite Portuguese Military Order of Santiago, as the newly presented documents show. This makes it impossible for her husband to be a wool-weaver from anywhere. Filipa required the approval of the King of Portugal, Master of the Order of Santiago, in order to marry anyone. Such a granting was a procedure reserved only for someone of high noble standing in Portugal.</div>
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It becomes irrelevant what the writers of the last Century, such as Tavianni and Morison concocted about the noble Filipa Moniz. Today we have valid documentation that Filipa Moniz was one of the twelve elite “donnas” of the Portuguese Military Order of Santiago. This new Portuguese document alone, according to Rosa, makes the entirety of the history about an Italian wool-weaver’s son named Colombo a false account.</div>
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Aside from the Order of Santiago document, Rosa was also the first to show Columbus’s original coat of arms and to publish the similarities that exist between it and that of the Polish king. The evidence appears irrefutable that Columbus, who had been housed in the palaces of the nobility, had access to royal courts, and married into nobility, could not be, as our history books tell us, the illiterate son of a poor weaver from Genoa.</div>
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“Another nutty conspiracy theory! That’s what I first supposed. I now believe that Columbus is guilty of a huge fraud carried out over two decades.” Wrote Prof. James T. McDonough Jr., of St. Joseph’s University.
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Columbus never wrote in Italian or Genoese, not even to his two brothers, and the scholars who have dedicated themselves to in-depth research of Christopher Columbus’s language have declared it to be a rough Castilian punctuated by noteworthy and frequent Portuguese words. This is clearly a clue to his Portuguese birth as are Columbus’s own words written to the Spanish court in March 4, 1493 saying that he “left wife and homeland” (Portugal) to go serve the court of Spain.</div>
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Now, 21st Century science is shedding more light on the Centuries-old Italian invention of a Genoese Colombo. Prof. José Lorente’s DNA studies prove that the discoverer Cristóbal Colón’s DNA did not match 477 Colombo families from the Genoa area. This constitutes 477 proofs that Colón was not a Colombo.</div>
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So, who was Christopher Columbus, or better Cristóbal Colón, if not a poor weaver’s son from Genoa? With so much uncertainty, how can we be sure of what is the truth?</div>
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When pressed to further expound on his theory, pointing to his extensive research, Rosa confidently, and with source documents to verify his assertions, claims “Colón was a royal prince, son of a Portuguese noblewoman from the Italian Colonna family and a man named Henrique Alemão (Henry the German) resident on the Portuguese island of Madeira.”</div>
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Turns out that Henrique Alemão was the false name of none other than King Wladyslaw III (a direct descendent of one of Europe’s greatest ruling dynasties, Lithuania’s Gedimin dynasty). After disappearing in the Battle of Varna in 1444, King Wladyslaw III went into self-exile at the Island of Madeira and hid his identity from the public at large. Ferdinand Colón also claimed that his father was a resident of Madeira.</div>
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Rosa has pieced together many previously missed clues, including the fact that Prince Georges Paleologue de Bissipat, an exiled Byzantine nobleman living in France nicknamed “Colombo the Younger”, said to be a relative of Christopher Columbus was also a relative of King Wladyslaw III and that Wladyslaw III descended from the “Kings of Jerusalem” just as Ferdinand states Columbus did.</div>
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According to Rosa’s book, documents show that some of Europe’s courts knew exactly who Henrique Alemão was and who Cristóbal Colón was. Their high connections explain why the mystery was perpetrated to hide the famous discoverer’s true identity.</div>
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Rosa theorizes that Columbus’s original name was Prince Segismundo Henriques, born on Madeira and son of King <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_III_of_Poland" style="border: 0px; color: #027061; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Władysław III</a> and his wife Senhorinha Annes, a noblewoman from the Portuguese Sá and Italian Colonna families. Thus the navigator descended from Italian aristocracy as Ferdinand claimed and shortened his mother’s last name Colonna to end up with his new Spanish identity of Colón. The last name, Colón, was mistakenly changed to Colom (Catalan for Pigeon) by the publisher Pedro Posa in April, 1493, and picked up by may other printers over Europe. But all who utilized the names Colom/Colombo/Columbus, were referencing the wrong person.</div>
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Is this just another run-of-the-mill conspiracy theory? Not according to historians from University of Lisbon and St. Joseph’s University, and most recently renowned Greek historian, Miltiades Varvounis, who wrote that Rosa’s book “<i>is a magnum opus and by no means should be considered a work of pseudo history or just another source of nutty conspiracy theories. Rosa’s numerous reliable findings and solid theories would make Sherlock Holmes jealous. The History of Columbus has many mixed-up facts and personalities, and maybe the time has come for the discoverer’s life to be finally rewritten</i>.”</div>
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Although in Portugal and Poland academics have taken to debating and supporting the new findings, it is lamentable that, up until now, there is little or no debate in America or Lithuania to either accept or contradict Rosa’s findings. It is hoped that Lithuanian publishers, historians and researchers will take an interest in this history altering evidence, as this book deserves an audience not only in Lithuania, but worldwide, since Columbus is a world renowned figure who changed the course of our human history.</div>
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Prof. D. Félix Martínez Llorente, of University of Valladolid affirmed “the book is an extensive and well-documented work on the still-enigmatic figure of Christopher Columbus, with evocative and notorious contributions that will, with absolute certainty, be talked about for a long time.”</div>
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Based on the extensive research, one can now be assured that the discoverer of America was not the poor wool-weaver’s son from Genoa. Hopefully, in the near future, forensic DNA evidence can be obtained to prove that Christopher Columbus descended from Lithuania’s Royal House but hid his royal lineage to protect a paramount secret. The secret that his father, King Wladyslaw III, did not die at the Battle of Varna in 1444, but survived, and rejecting the crown of Poland, Lithuania and Hungary, went to live out his days in secret exile in Portugal, was the reason for the whole mystery surrounding his identity.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Columbus was a Polish Prince, Claims Visiting Historian.</strong><br /><strong>Chicago Film Crew Will Film </strong>His Lecture<br /><strong>and His Visit to the Columbus Chapel o</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.3;">n April 6, 2013, </strong></span></h2>
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<em style="position: relative;"> (Boalsburg, PA)</em> - Manuel Rosa, a long-time historical researcher, author of four foreign-language books on Columbus and a native of Portugal, has researched Columbus’ mysterious origins and has come to a conclusion quite different from the conventional wisdom. He has decided that new evidence points to Christopher Columbus being a Polish prince.<br />
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Mr. Rosa will visit Centre County on Saturday, April 6, 2013, with a Polish film crew from Chicago. Early in the day he will pay homage to Boalsburg’s Columbus Chapel, the nation’s strongest link with the famed explorer, and then will give a lecture at a reception at 4 pm at the Boal Mansion titled "The Secret identity of Christopher Columbus: Peasant to Viceroy in 33 Days.”<br />
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For the last 21 years, Mr. Rosa has investigated and searched out the facts concerning the discovery of America utilizing a non-biased scientific approach that has taken him to Portugal, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Poland and many places in-between in his pursuit of Columbus’ origins. The new information he garnered about Columbus resulted in the publishing of his first book in 2006.<br />
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Mr. Rosa has appeared in various TV documentaries, on many European TV and Radio interviews as well as on BBC Radio and WNPR. His book has even been mentioned on Saturday Night Live.<br />
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The 4 pm lecture and reception is sponsored by the Boalsburg Village Conservancy. It is free and open to the public. For more information, see www.boalmuseum.com or contact 814-466-9266 or <a href="mailto:office@boalmuseum.com" style="color: #124a97; text-decoration: none;" title="">office@boalmuseum.com</a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227714866297039878.post-38878495743696774762013-02-16T00:38:00.001-05:002013-02-16T00:38:12.537-05:00KOLUMB. Historia Nieznana - magnum opus<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dlr3BmFQ4iY/UR8bA-q3uRI/AAAAAAAABa0/pQjHvBJzKAA/s1600/lh_article.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dlr3BmFQ4iY/UR8bA-q3uRI/AAAAAAAABa0/pQjHvBJzKAA/s200/lh_article.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e6IOdKc6Qr4/UR8XRwFpf5I/AAAAAAAABZo/fkMZJ_biPqw/s1600/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e6IOdKc6Qr4/UR8XRwFpf5I/AAAAAAAABZo/fkMZJ_biPqw/s200/cover.jpg" width="143" /></a> <a href="http://www.miltiadesvarvounis.com/author.php">Miltiades Varvounis</a>, distinguished Greek-Polish historian, researcher and author of the critically acclaimed <i>Jan Sobieski: The King Who Saved Europe</i> among several other history books, wrote in an extensive article about Manuel Rosa's Polish book on Christopher Columbus saying that <b><i>KOLUMB. Historia Nieznana</i></b>:<br />
"... <i>is a magnum opus and by no means should be considered a work of pseudo history or just another source of nutty conspiracy theories. Rosa's numerous reliable findings and solid theories would make Sherlock Holmes jealous. The History of Columbus has many mixed-up facts and personalities, and maybe the time has come for the discoverer's life to be finally rewritten</i>." - Source <a href="http://www.lithuanianheritage.com/">Lithuanian Heritage Magazine</a>, (January/February 2913) pg. 28.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227714866297039878.post-11337338134330542612013-01-15T10:58:00.002-05:002013-01-16T09:31:40.172-05:00Letter from readers of Kolumb Historia Nieznana<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Dear Manuel Rosa,<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are citizens of Kraków, the city where members of the
Jagiellonian dynasty are buried in the Wawel Cathedral, the burial site for
Polish monarchs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We have been deeply moved by your studies on the origins of
Christopher Columbus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first pieces of information we received were from the
press. However, it was after the translation of your book appeared that our
curiosity was aroused even more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We would like to encourage you to conclude the exciting
research and prove, or disprove, through DNA testing, whether or not Columbus
was a descendant of the Jagiellonian dynasty. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We would like to offer any indispensable help in
organizational matters, that is contact with the clergy, Cardinal of Kraków,
organization of your stay in Kraków, notification and invitation, with your
consent, of the appropriate people, who would be willing to accompany you in
uncovering the mystery.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wNBXp1GNT5s/UPWz5xTM2lI/AAAAAAAABX0/lenm3bxl100/s1600/krakowU.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wNBXp1GNT5s/UPWz5xTM2lI/AAAAAAAABX0/lenm3bxl100/s1600/krakowU.jpg" /></a>We believe that DNA testing should be carried out on both
King Władysław II Jagiełło (the father of King Władysław III of Varna) and his
fourth wife Sophia of Halshany since her husband accused her of adultery and
she went on trial. Therefore it is possible that the King Władysław III of
Varna was not a child of Władysław II Jagiełło. This only points to infidelity
of the king’s wife and it does not challenge in any way your research on the
origin of Christopher Columbus.<br />
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At the same time we want to congratulate you on the research
done so far in this area.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you have other plans aimed at confirmation of Christopher
Columbus’ identity and our help is not needed, we will keep our fingers crossed
for your successful explanation of the fascinating story.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Piotr Trzos<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have often pointed out how much of the documentation utilized to support the official history of Christopher Columbus is unreliable. The fact is that forgeries were created over the last five centuries, documents were modified, details were invented and facts were censored, discarded and ignored. All of this has been presented in my various books on Columbus. I have succeeded in proving that the <i>Last Will of 1498</i>, also called the <i>Mayorazgo de 1498</i>, was never written by Columbus but fabricated during the Inheritance Lawsuit for the Dukedom of Veragua (<i>los pleitos sobre la sucesión del Estado y Ducado de Veragua</i>) initiated in 1578 and finally put to rest in 1609. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The lawsuit for one of the greatest inheritances ever left, lasted 31 years. In 31 years a lot of forgeries can be created by those eager to benefit from them.
There are many reasons as to why forgeries are created, money being the most important reason. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have already shown how the Genoese publications actually fooled the historians with the <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QtQJk53P5k&feature=share&list=UUCz-6b5CsIAi7OcxfcD3DMw">Assereto Document</a> </i>by cutting out the blank pages and joining together the written pages as if they were continuous, which they are not. Furthermore, there is no way to stitch the Assereto pages together as a single document. If you do try to stitch it together the pages do not read correctly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I began to claim in 2005 that the Assereto was a blatant forgery by the City of Genoa to influence history, I was then told of this short quote from Paolo Emilio Taviani, - still used against me today by those who never read my books - as to why the document is authentic: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<i>It is important to bear in mind that at the time when Assereto traced the document, it would have been <b>impossible</b> to make an acceptable facsimile. Nowadays, with modern chemical processes, a document can be 'manufactured', made to look centuries old if need be, with such skill that it is hard to prove it is a fake. Fifty years ago this was still impossible.</i>"§ </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today I am posting here two documents which I declare are forgeries. The "<b>original</b>" forgery is a supposed letter from Columbus to the Genoese Bank of St. George dated 1502. I have not had the opportunity to go see this original in person, but simply by what the text itself says, as well as by the format of the signature, I declare that Columbus could never have written this letter. Someone in Italy forged this letter sometime after Columbus died in an attempt to connect him to the Bank in Genoa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The "<b>copy</b>" is clearly a forgery since it is almost indistinguishable from the "<b>original</b>" housed in Genoa. Simply by comparing both, it is obvious that one was copied from the other with the intent to fool someone and everyone into accepting that Columbus had written it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look carefully and you will note that all text lines break on the same words, that all strokes of the pen are copied exactly and how the missing text in the original, due to the holes in it, is blank on the copy.•
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<span style="font-size: large;">Strangely enough, the discoverer, who was supposed to have been born in Genoa and was supposed to have lived there for half his life, wrote this letter to the Genoese Bank not in Genoese but in Castilian. Even stranger is that we are supposed to believe that the Bank's reply, one addressed to Columbus's son the other to Columbus, instead of being written back in Castilian, were written in Genoese, instead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following image shows a letter dated December 8, 1502, that Columbus never received.
No letters from the "prestigious" Bank of St. George were ever found in the Discoverer's Archives in Spain, but are found, instead, in the Bank's own archives! Talk about a case of severe miscommunication, the reply is written in the wrong language and found in the sender's hands!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Published in John Boyd Thacher's </span><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Christopher Columbus: his life, his works, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">his remains: as revealed by original printed and manuscript records,</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> 1904.</span> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now comes the part where I prove how Paolo Emilio Taviani and all his followers are wrong about forgeries in saying and accepting that it was <i><b>impossible</b></i> for the <i>Assereto Document </i>to have been forged. Take a good look at the two images of the letter above and see if you can tell the difference between them. The two documents are so close to one another that if one had not been done in vellum and if the other did not have the two holes punched in the middle, it would have been impossible to tell which one was written first.
The "<b>original</b>" with the holes through it came to light in Italy 1829 and has, since then, been housed in Genoa. The "<b>copy</b>" came to light in October 1883, while Henry Harrisse was in Paris. The "<b>copy</b>" was then offered for sale in New York and Chicago in 1887, as told by Mr. Harrisse.
The letters are such perfect copies that when you take one and place it on top of the other, they match up almost perfectly, as the photoshop image below shows. (Try it yourself by downloading each letter.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The yellow image is of the paper document with the holes in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The pink image is of the vellum document. I placed one image over</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the other in photoshop and changed the opacity on the pink image so that</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the yellow image would bleed through. Note how they match up exactly,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> especially on the signature, where the image below has not overlap at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The other text follows the same exact pattern. The lower left leg of</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the pink "M" has an upstroke that is not on the yellow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This seems to me that this could only have been done with some sort of direct tracing which would have been impossible to do if the "<b>original</b>" was held in the custody of the City of Genoa since 1829. It seems to me that, if one is in vellum and the other on paper, that it would be easier to trace with the paper over the parchment than vice-versa. In such a case the "<b>copy</b>" would have to be the letter held by the City of Genoa and the "<b>original</b>" would be the vellum.
Possibly the vellum copy forgery was created first, I don't know how translucent parchment can be in order to trace over another document, but either way, the important thing here is that an exact forgery was done in Italy of an essential document that is used to support the "official narrative" of the peasant wool-weaver and, thus, again Taviani was wrong in saying that forgeries were impossible to create in 1904. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If such an exact forgery could have been done before 1883, imagine how easy it would be to forge a stand-alone document, one that did not have to match any other document, as is the Assereto?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Needless to say, historians the world over have been fooled for centuries by the many forgeries and adulterated documents and have "agreed" to a history <a href="http://polishnews.com/newsy-news/news-from-around-chicago-z-chicago-i-okolic/4212-historian-to-reveal-columbus-identity-at-chicago%E2%80%99s-copernicus-center">now proven to be a fairytale</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">New research continues to reveal more and more lies in the history books relating to Columbus and his "discovery" of America. We have not yet uncovered all the lies but at least we have opened the door to reality and begun to shed some light on those old dusty documents, so long held as the "proof", but which turn out to be only proof of a misled world which accepted that the great Admiral and Viceroy had started his life as the poor peasant wool-weaver from Genoa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Along with this forgery, I am inserting another type of forgery. That is the forgery of documentation, either by evil intent, by good intent or by ignorance. Forgery of documentation occurs when a document is modified from its original state or copied with wrong information. The case I present next is important because it relates to the first English translation of Peter Martyr's text on the Discovery of America.
The reader will note that Peter Martyr, writing in Latin, always called the discoverer by the correct Latin form <i><b>Colonus</b></i> and never Columbus.
As I have explained many times before, the name <i>Christopher Columbus</i> is not the correct name of the discoverer.
His correct name in Spanish is <b><i>Cristóbal Colón</i></b> which gives us Christopher Colonus in Latin, while the Latin <i>Christopher Columbus</i> would give us <b>Cristóbal Paloma</b> in Spanish, <i>Columbus/Paloma</i> can never equal <i>Colonus/Colon</i>.
Here you can <a href="http://colombo-o-novo.blogspot.com/2012/06/como-colon-tornou-se-colom-depois.html">see an explanation of how the name Colon </a>(from the Greek <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>κωλον</b></span> meaning <i>Member</i>) began to get corrupted, first to <i>Colom</i> (Catalan meaning <i>Pigeon</i>) and then to <i>Colombo</i> (Italian meaning <i>Pigeon</i>) and finally to Columbus, which means <i>Pigeon</i> in Latin. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">I can't put into a blog article the whole of 700 pages of my first book nor <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/KOLUMB-Historia-Nieznana-Columbus-Edition/dp/8375107220">KOLUMB. Historia Nieznana</a></i></b> (<i>COLUMBUS. Unknown History</i>), however, the important thing is to remember that the name <b>Colonus</b> was wrongly corrupted to <b>Columbus </b>and the following image from Richard Eden book shows this forgery of the documentation in action.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Peter Martyr's original text on the left and Richard Eden's on the right. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The blue arrows show the insertion by Eden that is not on the original.</span> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Richard Eden inserted into his translation the following text which is not part of the original text written by Peter Martyr. However, Mr. Eden does not bother to alert the reader that he had taken it upon himself to add this text: <i><b>(otherwise called Columbus) A gentilman of Italy, borne in the citie of Genua.</b></i> Richard Eden added this information without a reference as to where he got it, trying to put words into Peter Martyr's mouth. However, it can be safe to say that Eden followed rampant rumors and innuendo and not any official document or statement issued by the Colon family. The Colon family was intentionally hiding the true identity and birthplace of Christopher from the public eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Inventions like the one Eden implemented are rampant in the Columbus documents, chronicles and translations but have no factual basis, as is excruciatingly detailed in the three books that I have already published in Portugal, Spain and Poland.
We should learn to call the discoverer by his correct name, which was <b><i>Cristóbal Colón</i></b>, that is the <a href="http://www.petaquilla.com/newsrelease.aspx?petaquilla=Don%20Cristobal%20Colon%20de%20Carvajal%20Joins%20Advisory%20Board%20of%20Petaquilla%20Minerals%20Ltd">name <i>Colon</i> has been continuously used until today by his thousands of descendants</a>, and we must systematically denounce the false name of Christopher Columbus because it is the name of an impostor fabricated by unreliable and false Italian documentation that does nothing but add to the confusion.
The fact is that, with so much false information, we may never know the true identity of Colon without a wide ranging DNA study, which we hope to be able to perform in the upcoming years. </span></div>
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§ <span style="font-size: x-small;">Christopher Columbus: the grand design, Taviani, Paolo Emilio.
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• <span style="font-size: x-small;">Christopher Columbus and the Bank of Saint George, Henry Harrisse, Chiswick press; C. Wittingham and co., London, 1888
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Contact: Gloria de Sá, Faculty Director<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Phone: 508-910-6888<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">THE SECRET IDENTITY OF COLUMBUS: PEASANT TO VICEROY IN 33
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">October 12, 2012 – North Dartmouth, MA. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives announces a presentation by
historian Manuel Rosa titled “<b><i>The Secret Identity of Columbus: Peasant to
Viceroy in 33 days</i></b>.” The event—free and open to the public—will take place on
Thursday, October 25 at 5:30 P.M. in the Prince Henry Society Reading Room at
the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives. Light refreshments will be
served.</span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k2zueHgkg4c/UH2JfucmuTI/AAAAAAAABLY/ZQ9-ods4fzI/s1600/Part_III_Columbus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k2zueHgkg4c/UH2JfucmuTI/AAAAAAAABLY/ZQ9-ods4fzI/s200/Part_III_Columbus.jpg" width="125" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Will Christopher Columbus's picture soon adorn the walls of
many Lithuanian-American, Polish-American, and Portuguese-American institutions
as well as private homes of people of this background?” questioned the
organizers of a similar talk held last month at the Balzekas Museum of
Lithuanian Culture in Chicago. Mr.
Rosa’s research suggests that it should.
During his presentation, he will show historical evidence indicating
that the man credited with discovering America was not the son of a humble
weaver from Genoa, but rather a nobleman of Portuguese birth fathered by the
exiled Polish King Wladislaw III, a member of the Lithuanian Jagiellonian
Dynasty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">While Mr. Rosa’s theories have been met with skepticism by
many, they have also received considerable praise. At a presentation that took
place on May 16, 2012, at the Portuguese Academy of History, which was full to
capacity with members of the scientific community, his investigations were
described as "a serious look at the truth, well-substantiated and worthy
of praise." Similarly, his book <i>Portuguese Columbus—New Revelations</i>
received accolades from Portuguese academics, including Professor Manuela
Mendonça, President of the Portuguese Academy of History, and Professor Joaquim
Veríssimo Serrão ex-president of the same organization who wrote the preface to
<i>Colombo Português</i></span><i>—</i><i style="font-family: inherit;">Novas Revlações</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and described Mr. Rosa’s work as “serious and diligent.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite all the attention that his work has received, Manuel
Rosa did not start out as a historian. Born on the island of Pico in the
Azores, he immigrated to Somerville, Massachusetts in 1973 with his parents
and, like other children across the world, learned in school that the man that
“sailed the ocean blue” was Italian. He
has followed a successful, professional career that ranged from management to
graphic artist, to IT working for such distinguished publications as the Atlantic Monthly and the Boston
Magazine. In 1991, while working on the
English translation of the book on Columbus by A. Mascarenhas Barreto, he became aware of the controversy over
Columbus’s identity. Overnight, history
became his passion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Since then, Manuel Rosa has dedicated most of his free time
and countless other resources to researching the life of Christopher Columbus.
This scientific, historical investigation has taken him to the Dominican
Republic, to Poland and many places in between, in his relentless quest for the
truth about the identity of the putative discoverer of America. These efforts included an active involvement
in the DNA studies of Columbus's bones at the University of Granada, Spain, to
which Mr. Rosa was able to contribute DNA material collected from members of
Portuguese noble families who are possible descendants of Columbus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr. Rosa’s sensational findings have been announced in major
newspapers worldwide, including the New York Daily and the Daily Telegraph and
resulted in the publication of two academic books that have been translated
into several languages. He has also
presented the results of his investigations at numerous Portuguese, US, Spanish
and Polish universities as well as the prestigious Sociedade de Geografia de
Lisboa. Currently, he lives in North
Carolina where he works for Duke University.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For directions to the UMass Dartmouth campus, see
http://www.umassd.edu/vtour/. Please use
Parking Lot 13. Access to the archives
during library construction is by way of the library basement and first floor
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