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Discovery of America
Columbus May Not Have Been First to America
Rossella Lorenzi Thu May 3, 2012 01:24 PM ET
THE GIST •A five-century-old document has revealed that Italian bankers were behind John Cabot’s expeditions to North America. •The explorer may have had knowledge of European expeditions to the New World that predated Columbus’s voyage. •The document was found after historians started an investigation worthy of a Dan Brown novel.
http://news.discovery.com/history/columbus-cabot-new-world-discovery-120503.html