{"id":4656,"date":"2010-11-29T07:53:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2010-11-29T07:53:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:53:42","slug":"christopher-columbus-was-polish-not-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/11\/christopher-columbus-was-polish-not-portuguese","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Columbus Was Polish Not Portuguese"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4657\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4657  \" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"columbus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/columbus-250x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/columbus-250x152.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/columbus-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/columbus.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Columbus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He is celebrated as the humble Italian weaver who ended up discovering the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>But  the conventional wisdom relating to Christopher Columbus is under  threat after academics concluded the explorer was actually a Polish  immigrant.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of distinguished professors have completed 20 years of painstaking research into his beginnings.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>The fresh evidence about Columbus\u2019 background is revealed in a new book by Manuel Rosa, an academic at Duke University in the United States.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1333895\/Christopher-Columbus-Polish-Portuguese-claim-historians.html#ixzz16fvoeNQv\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional wisdom relating to Christopher Columbus is under threat after academics concluded the explorer was actually a Polish immigrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-celebrities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}