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The Columbus voyage was a pretty marginal thing. The Europeans had a decent idea of how big the world was, and Columbus hugely underestimated the distance to Asia (which is where secret-map theories come from); Isabella was willing to finance the expedition mostly because the long-shot payoff (a...

Ixbiliada the history of Seville, 1070-1290 FOREWORD excerpted from Izanagi Aoi, Moorish History: A Very Poor Introduction. Honolulu: Daiwakoku Press, 1988. Far out in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy lies an utterly representative G-series star. Orbiting this, at a distance of...