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From Columbus's first voyage in 1492 to the rise of European settlements by 1592, this video traces the early colonization of the Americas. Learn how exploration, conquest, and conflict shaped the ...
Festival season gets underway with the Columbus Summer Wine Festival and Delaware Pride, plus plenty of music, theater and ...
As various cruise lines move to reposition ships for the coming season, assorted transoceanic adventures include a celebrity-studded 10-day London to New York crossing, a pair of “Mystery at ...
Clad in timber and topped with soaring sails, a full-size replica of Christopher Columbus’ 15th-century flagship has moored ...
A replica of Christopher Columbus's flagship Nao Santa Maria opened to public at London's St. Katharine Docks Marina on ...
A replica of the flagship of Christopher Columbus’s fleet during his 1492 voyage across the Atlantic has dropped anchor at St ...
In 1892, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage, the American Jewish merchant Lazarus Straus and his diplomat son, Oscar Solomon Straus of the elite German-Jewish “Our Crowd ...
Columbus Day is a federal holiday commemorating Italian explorer Christopher Columbus’ voyage and landing in the New World on Oct. 12, 1492. Columbus was commissioned by King Ferdinand and Queen ...
show us that the modern celebration has less to do with Christopher Columbus and his voyages to the Caribbean and more to do with the mistreatment of Catholic Americans, which included Italian ...
Laurence Begreeen, author of Columbus: The Four Voyages, said, “I don’t see in Columbus’s writings — and he did write a lot — this specific articulation of his mission.” “For sure ...
That counter-celebration, proposed in the late 1970s, was first adopted by Berkeley, California, to protest the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage. President Joe Biden has managed this ...