A Tribute To the Greatest Navigator

One of the four sons of a wool-weaver, Christopher Columbus became a great navigator, who went to sea to learn the sailor's skills and later to discover a land filled with riches; rejected by The King of Portugal, he appealed to the Republic of Genoa and Venice...to return empty-handed! Finally, King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to make him the " Admiral of the Seas ", and Columbus departed from Palos, Portugal with three caravels: the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria for a slow and long voyage... to find spices, and gold in mines and rivers and in other places; and when one of his sailors sighted land,as if in a mirage, Columbus thought he had reached the East Indies, not realizing he had discovered the New World's shores!