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Christopher Columbus was born in the year 1451, so you subtract 1451 from 2011, which is the current year, and you get 560. Christopher Columbus is 560 years old. --melissa
No, he does not, and never has. Laura Chinchilla Miranda is the current president of Costa Rica.
He followed the currents. There is a very powerful current from Europe that moves ships towards North America. He was only at sea 33 days.
That is where he was carried by the strong ocean current.
The answer below is WRONG. He was not trying to prove that the world wasn't flat. This had all ready been known for thousands of years before 1492. The explorers like Columbus was looking for a water route to Asia for trade. If a water route was found the riches would be enormous. He accidentally bumped into the Bahamas.
Christopher Columbus was born in the year 1451, so you subtract 1451 from 2011, which is the current year, and you get 560. Christopher Columbus is 560 years old. --melissa
No, he does not, and never has. Laura Chinchilla Miranda is the current president of Costa Rica.
There were three ships under Columbus's control: The Pinta, Nina, and the Santa Maria. All three of them made it to the new world where he landed upon current day Bahams island, San Salvador.
When a continent deflects the movement of a current.
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Teresa Tomlinson is the current mayor of Columbus, GA.
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Africa is a continent, not a country, therefore there is no "President of Africa". However, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the 24th and current President of Liberia, a country in Africa.
He followed the currents. There is a very powerful current from Europe that moves ships towards North America. He was only at sea 33 days.
The current "colony" on the South American continent is Guyane (French Guiana). However, this is truly not a colony of France but instead an integral part of the country. It is considered as much a part of France as Paris.
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