Songs for January 9
Good morning from Modern Massachusetts.
It is the ninth of January, and on this day in 1493, Christopher Columbus, explorer and colonizer, reported seeing mermaids while sailing near what is now the Dominican Republic. He reported that they were "not half as beautiful as they are painted." Turned out they were manatees.
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