The Columbus Challenge — Part 4 | The Archive Project

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This video recording recounts the story of Luigi Cappellini, a Genoan businessman who found, and restored, an old Tyrrhenian cargo vessel. With a crew of ten, he then sailed this vessel, the Felice Manin, on a reenactment of the Columbus voyage, circumnavigating the globe in 1984.

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Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards

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Video Recordings Relating to the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee

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1987-05-28

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3:21

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