This one ran on my birthday in 2008. And it's about one of my favorite cartographic urban legends (BTW, if a legend is hundreds of years old, can it still be described as urban?). That being, of course, that anybody in Columbus' time believed the Earth was flat (nobody did. The roundness of the Earth was well-established thousands of years at least prior to C.C.). I've addressed that falsehood and its origins here. Bugs Bunny's take on this argument is funnier.
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