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> Or else the guy cleaning the ship's deck in the morning should be rewarded for discovering America. We know the guy by the way, one Rodrigo de Triana, natura
by JorgeGT 9y ago
> Or else the guy cleaning the ship's deck in the morning should be rewarded for discovering America.
We know the guy by the way, one Rodrigo de Triana, natural of Lepe. NASA's DSCO satellite was originally named Triana after him.
- dave_sullivan 9y agoAnd Columbus never did pay him... > On his famous 1492 voyage, Columbus had promised a reward of gold to whoever saw land first. A sailor named Rodrigo de Triana was the first to see land on October 12, 1492: a small island in the present-day Bahamas Columbus named San Salvador. Poor Rodrigo never got the reward however: Columbus kept it for himself, telling everyone he had seen a hazy sort of light the night before. He had not spoken up because the light was indistinct. Rodrigo may have gotten hosed, but there is a nice statue of him sighting land in a park in Seville.
- JorgeGT 9y agoBut we are talking about him half a millenium later, very few people alive today will get that.