First Landing
Of Christopher Columbus
(Frederick Kemmelmeyer)
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Christopher Columbus
and the
Great Age
of
Discovery
HIST 4391 / 5391
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Spring 2005
African El Dorado.
Mansa Musa of Mali
Fashions the Legend
of West Africa Gold.
Africa played a big role in the initiation of European overseas expansion during the fifteenth century. Gold mines in West Africa....
Marco! Polo!
A Bored Prisoner, Marco Polo
Creates a Diversion that
Becomes a Story for the Ages.
My title makes reference to the well-known game of Marco Polo. Its namesake, the medieval traveler and writer Marco Polo....
Who Is the Alien?
Abductions
Transform
Greetings
Into Attack.
Alien abduction is a big topic in popular culture and has been for some time. Most of us are only familiar with alien abduction vicariously....
Who Was on First?
Pre-Columbian
Explorers of America
Are Many and Varied.
Oscar Wilde, the Anglo-Irish wit, lived in the second half of the nineteenth century. We remember him as the author....
Shock of New Worlds.
"To Boldly Go
Where No Man
Has Gone Before."
That familiar phrase started every episode of the original Star Trek series. It delighted science fiction fans while it appalled grammarians....
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