{"id":10446,"date":"2014-08-04T05:21:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T09:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=10446"},"modified":"2014-07-27T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T20:01:42","slug":"10-myths-about-famous-explorers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=10446","title":{"rendered":"10 Myths About Famous Explorers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z080414explorer_myths.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>When\u00a0<\/b>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/listverse.com\/2014\/07\/23\/10-myths-about-famous-explorers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>10 Myths About Famous Explorers<\/strong><\/a> by <strong>Alex Hanton<\/strong>, I was reminded of some<em><strong> facts<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 that I had forgotten and I learned a few more along the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here&#8217;s a taste of three Myths&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Myth: Robert Peary Was The First Man To Reach The North Pole.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I knew this wasn&#8217;t true and that a black man named Matthew Henson was the first. \u00a0Since Peary was the leader of the expedition and Henson was black, Peary got the credit. \u00a0 What I didn&#8217;t realize was that Peary was such a jerk that &#8220;he\u00a0refused to answer Henson\u2019s letters, help him get a job, or return the photos of the expedition that Henson\u00a0had taken and paid for.&#8221; \u00a0I also didn&#8217;t know that there was another explorer who beat Henson and Peary and his backers used their power and the situation to get the credit!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Myth: Ponce De Leon Was Searching For The Fountain Of Youth<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">He wasn&#8217;t. \u00a0&#8220;The story was made up by Ponce\u2019s enemies in Spain after his death in order to make him look like a gullible,\u00a0sexually impotent idiot. It worked\u2014the story largely eclipsed his actual achievements, like discovering the Gulf Stream.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Myth: Christopher Columbus Died in Poverty<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The truth is that Columbus died an extremely wealthy aristocrat&#8230; The myth probably comes from Columbus\u2019s own bitterness at not getting the insane 10 percent of all gold and silver from the Americas he believed he was entitled to. He spent the last years of his life compiling documents related to this claim, which his descendants used in a famous series of lawsuits against the crown.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/listverse.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Listverse<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0I read 10 Myths About Famous Explorers by Alex Hanton, I was reminded of some facts\u00a0 that I had forgotten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10448,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10446\/revisions\/10448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}