The 11,000 virgins of the Caribbean

Edit The Examiner 28 May 2016
Christopher Columbus was cruising around the eastern Caribbean in 1493 when he spotted a bunch of islands so pristine he's said to have thought of the 11,000 virgin handmaidens of the legendary St. Ursula. He named the lovely dots in the blue-green waters “Las Virgenes,” a tag known today as the U.S ... And there's a St ... When jotting the story down on paper, a monk mixed that name up with the words undecim millia, meaning 11,000... ....
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