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Columbus XX? Is he a rapper?


11 posted on 10/09/2017 8:08:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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RE: Columbus XX? Is he a rapper?

Humor aside, according to the USA TODAY article, Christopher Columbus XX is the Duke of Veragua, and a biographer of his ancestral namesake.

As per Wikipedia,

The Duchy of Veragua (Spanish: Ducado de Veragua) was a Spanish hereditary domain created in 1537 in the reign of King Charles I in a small section of the territory of Veragua (Gobernación de Veragua, which had been created in 1502 and extended along the Caribbean coasts of present-day Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama as far to the east as the Río Belén). The first Duke of Veragua was Admiral Luis Colón y Toledo, grandson and heir of Christopher Columbus. The establishment of the duchy was the resolution of a longstanding dispute between the Spanish Crown and the heirs of Columbus, who had claimed a greater area.


14 posted on 10/09/2017 8:19:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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