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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by pedrosorio on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:53AM (#28652782)
> Columbus thought India was closer than it was because birds could be seen returning to the West Coast of England with twigs and leaves from somewhere

The Portuguese settled the Azores before Columbus was born, so this sounds like a weird reason to believe India was closer.

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