Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Historical references
One of the more fanciful plot twists—the use of an eclipse to fool an unsophisticated population—is based on an actual story of Christopher Columbus. Columbus claimed that, on his fourth voyage, he used a similar trick (with an easier-to-predict lunar eclipse) to influence a population of West Indians.[4] H. Rider Haggard had used the same twist four years earlier in King Solomon's Mines. The Belgian comic strip Tintin also pulled this trick during the main character's adventure in Prisoners of the Sun.
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