FOR 102 YEARS, THE REMAINS of Columbus were housed in Havana. They were placed at the Havana Cathedral in 1796, when France took over Hispaniola. In 1898, when Cuba freed itself of Spanish dominion, they sent his ashes with them. In the Bahamas, Discovery Day, in honor of Columbus, was celebrated until 2012, when it was replaced by National Heroes

It was not the irony of history that the undesired in the countries of Europe should have crossed an ocean to build a new world on this continent. Only they could do it.

Pendant des siècles les navires avaient fait que les voyages étaient plus lents, plus tragiques aussi qu’ils ne le sont de nos jours. La durée du voyage couvrait la longueur de la distance de façon naturelle. On était habitué à ces lentes vitesses humaines sur la terre et sur la mer, à ces retards, à ces attentes du vent, des éclaircies, des naufra