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Columbus first landed in the Bahamas in 1492 sailing on behalf of the Spanish crown in a new attempt to find a western route to Asia. He made four voyages to the New World including Antilles, Venezuela and Central America. He served as Governor in Hispaniola but was later dismissed on charges of...

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Different genetic laboratories will analyze samples of the mortal remains of relatives of Pedro Alvarez de Sotomayor, nicknamed Pedro Madruga, exhumed last week from two sarcophagi in the church of the convent of Santo Domingo in Tui, in Galicia (northern Spain), to determine if the remains are in fact those of Christopher Columbus. The quite complex task will be to try to extract DNA from remains buried in the 15th century to match them with the mortal remains of Christopher Columbus or his…

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