Columbus left Spain with three ships, depicted in this spectacular oil painting by N.C. Wyeth: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. He returned with two. A night of hard partying off the coast of what is now Haiti left no sailors awake enough to steer the Santa Maria, the expedition's largest ship. It crashed on a reef and sank. Now, American archaeologists may have discovered the shipwreck. Painting by N.C. Wyeth, National Geographic
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