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Discovery! The very word sends tingles surging up your spine. It quick ens your pulse. Discoveries are the moments of “Ah, ha! I under stand!” and of “Eu reka! I found it!”Every one longs to dis cover some thing—any thing! A discovery is finding or observing some thing new—some thing unknown or unnoticed be fore. It is noticing what was always there but had been over looked by all be fore. It is stretching out into untouched and un-charted regions. Discoveries open new horizons, pro vide new in sights, and cre ate vast for -tunes. Dis cov er ies mark the prog ress of hu man civ i li za tions. They advance human knowledge.
Court room ju ries try to dis cover the truth. An thro pol o gists dis cover ar ti facts from pasthu man civ i li za tions and cul tures. Peo ple un der go ing psy cho ther apy try to discover themselves.
When we say that Co lum bus “dis cov ered” the New World, we don’t mean that he created it, de vel oped it, de signed it, or in vented it. The New World had al ways been there. Natives had lived on it for thou sands of years be fore Co lum bus’s 1492 ar rival. They knew the Ca rib bean Is lands long be fore Co lum bus ar rived and cer tainly didn’t need a Eu ro pean todis cover the is lands for them. What Co lum bus did do was make Eu ro pean so cieties aware of this new con ti nent. He was the first Eu ro pean to lo cate this new land mass and put it on the maps. That made it a discovery.
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