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Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996) is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, the first in a proposed Pastwatch series. The book's focus is the life and activities of explorer Christopher Columbus. Much of the action deals with a group of scientists from the future who travel back to the 15th century ...
Mexican filmmaker Sebastián and his Spanish executive producer Costa arrive in Cochabamba, Bolivia, accompanied by the cast and crew, to create a historical film depicting Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World, the imposition of Spanish authority over the natives of Hispaniola, and the subsequent indigenous rebellion by Hatuey.
The manuscript letter was found as part of a collection known as the Libro Copiador, a book containing manuscript copies of nine letters written by Columbus to the Catholic Monarchs, with dates ranging from March 4, 1493, to October 15, 1495, copied by the hand of a writer in the late 16th century. Seven of these nine letters were previously ...
The film was a flop in the United States, debuting at number 7 with a gross of $3,002,680 (about $6.5 million today), [11] worse than the opening of Christopher Columbus: The Discovery earlier in the year, and went on to gross just $7 million [13] [14] [15] ($15.2 million today). [11]
Through dramatic re-enactment, narrator voice-overs and interviews with leading Indigenous scholars, the series illustrates that before the arrival of Columbus in the Americas the Western Hemisphere was heavily populated with Indigenous societies which were highly advanced in agriculture, astronomy, architecture, governance, medicine ...
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Christopher Columbus's journal (Diario) is a diary and logbook written by Christopher Columbus about his first voyage.The journal covers events from 3 August 1492, when Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera, to 15 March 1493 and includes a prologue addressing the sovereigns. [1]
Historians have noted Irving's "active imagination" [3] and called some aspects of his work "fanciful and sentimental". [1] Literary critics have noted that Irving "saw American history as a useful means of establishing patriotism in his readers, and while his language tended to be more general, his avowed intention toward Columbus was thoroughly nationalist". [4]