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[[Marie Antoinette]]'s "Let them eat cake" was almost certainly never uttered.  The phrase was likely invented by anti-monarchist revolutionaries seeking to have Marie and Louis XVI executed.

[[Marie Antoinette]]'s "Let them eat cake" was almost certainly never uttered.  The phrase was likely invented by anti-monarchist revolutionaries seeking to have Marie and Louis XVI executed.

===Columbus sets out to discover America==

===Columbus sets out to discover America===

#When Christopher [[Columbus]] sailed the ocean blue, what he was really doing was looking for a sea route to Asia. It didn't turn out quite the way he expected; he made landfall on the island of Hispanola.  A related myth is that Columbus discovered or proved that the Earth was round. Unlike many others, these myths are widely known to be false.

#When Christopher [[Columbus]] sailed the ocean blue, what he was really doing was looking for a sea route to Asia. It didn't turn out quite the way he expected; he made landfall on the island of Hispanola.  A related myth is that Columbus discovered or proved that the Earth was round. Unlike many others, these myths are widely known to be false.