How Christopher Columbus went from a failed navigator to a failed governor to a successful marketing franchise, thanks to successful author Washington Irving. If it weren’t for the author of :The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:, the master of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria would be a forgotten footnote, instead of an American symbol, and we wouldn’t be celebrating Columbus Day today.

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