There's no truth to the story that she had to pawn her jewels to finance Columbus' first voyage
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that Isabel did NOT *sell* her jewels; she pawned them to Jewish... [DOC] [TLE] The Rewriting of America's First Lesson in Heroism - Journals@KU [PAR] both houses in the latter-day Columbian feud, if only both houses were not ... 
suggests, the story of Columbus "teaches us more about our limitations than ..... 
That Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance Columbus' first voyage, or that 
it was widely believed in 1492 that the ...