Recent DNA testing has shown that Christopher Columbus, rather than being from the Italian city-state of Genoa, was, in fact, a Sephardic Jew, born in Valencia, Spain.
Further research into his newly recognized origins revealed a diary kept by Columbus's mother, in which she laments her son's sea-faring career choice and his repeatedly "...going off to the ends of the earth and who knows where for years at a time for that shiksa Queen Isabella without sending his own mother so much as a post card."
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