-- Oh! He is the Ming dynasty explorer of            all the Chinese are proud.

    What can little money do? It's worth thinking it over.

    A few weeks ago, I got $120 from a friend in a Smile Group. He asked me to do good things with the money. Since then I have used the money to help strangers, and raised a lot of smiles.

   One day I was in a shop, looking at the second-hand books. It happened that the book shelves (架子) were next to the toy shelf. I noticed that a poorly dressed woman standing behind me. A girl about 3 years old came over to the toy shelf. At once her attention was caught by a toy dog. She spoke to her mother and her mother asked the shop owner how much it cost. The answer was $ 3. Then she said “no”. The child said nothing. Maybe "no" was not new for her, but she couldn't keep the disappointment away from her face.

    I had a total of $ 5. I put the money in the mother's hand and said, "Buy her a book, too." I didn't wait to see the end. I walked out of the shop.

    The money the friend gave me was to help me find happiness in the world. Was there any better way to get so much happiness with so little money?

    Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa (located in Italy today). He was first taken to the sea when he was 14 years old. In 1479, he met his brother Bartolomeo, a mapmaker, in Lisbon. He later married Filipa Moniz Perestrello and in 1480, his son Diego was born. The family stayed in Lisbon until 1485, when Columbus' s wife Filipa died.

    On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail with three ships, the Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria, and 104 men. After a short stop at the Canary Islands, the ships set out across the Atlantic. This voyage took five weeks - much longer than Columbus expected, as he thought the world was smaller than it is. During this time, many of the members got diseases and died, or died of hunger and thirst.

Finally, at 2:00 a.m. on October 12, 1492, Rodrigo de Triana saw land. When Columbus reached the land, he believed it was an Asian island and named it San Salvador. Because he did not find treasure, Columbus decided to continue sailing in search of China. Instead, he ended up visiting Cuba and Hispaniola.

  On Christmas Day, Columbus's Santa Maria wrecked (失事) off the coast of Hispaniola.  Because there was only a little space on the Nina, Columbus had to leave about 40 men behind. Soon after, Columbus set sail for Spain, where he arrived on March 15, 1493, completing his first voyage.