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His+story and the bravery of lions

History, funny word. If you dissect it into two, you get a combination of two words. His and story, meaning "His story". Not "Our story, her story or their story". It is basically the story of him, giving him the chance to tell it as he likes.   No one can dispute it, unless you were there.   But as you will learn in this article, he who survives gets to tell the story: his story. Let's go back, way back. Christopher Columbus sailed from Europe to uncharted unknowns and found America.   His feat is praised in history. What you probably don't know is that Columbus found America by mistake, he was actually looking for a new route to India.   So when he set foot on the first land mass he saw, he did a happy dance because he thought he hit the jackpot. The Native Americans are called Indians, because that is what Columbus thought they were. So just to recap, Columbus "found" a place that was already inhabited while looking for another place (I...