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Christopher Columbus’ Lunar Eclipse, and Other Brazen Bluffs From History
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Christopher Columbus’ Lunar Eclipse, and Other Brazen Bluffs From History

The trope of outsiders from advanced societies using greater access to knowledge to overawe locals has a long pedigree. Take the cliché of somebody predicting an eclipse based on science, to intimidate superstitious natives with a pretense of supernatural powers. It has been repeated in fiction such as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, ...
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