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A Denver parade in honor of Christopher Columbus is on — despite a phony e-mail that circulated Thursday saying the downtown celebration was canceled for lack of funds.
During the first three centuries of American history — from the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the new world, through the years that revolutionaries struggled for independence for the fledgling United States — Spain was already one of the word's great empires.
A stolen 15th century map dating to the dawn of modern printing, a decade before Christopher Columbus sailed to America, was returned to Spain on Monday.
It took less time for Christopher Columbus to drum up the money and set sail for the New World than it has for the Columbus space lab to get off the ground.
Christopher Columbus has his big day with a pair of documentaries.
It all depends on what you mean by discover and who you're talking about. To those identified by the term Native Americans he did not, how could he discover where they were living?
Dental Studies Give Clues About Christopher Columbus's CrewThe first planned colonial town in the New World was founded in 1494, when about 1,200 of Christopher Columbus's crew members from the 17 ships that made up his second journey to the Americas settled on the north coast of what is now the Dominican Republic .
(This article is a work in progress. It will be completed as time permits, but for Sabbath readers who want a start (given its long length), here goes . . . The final product will be edited, so again consider this a work in progress.)
Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor of paranoiaisfact.com answers readers' questions. Dear Igor, On the advice of Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, I began taking eighteen grams of Vitamin C daily twenty years ago.
Armageddon? Church retails to the massesThey're still ready for Armageddon at the Church Universal and Triumphant, a religious sect that for almost two decades has kept a bomb shelter stocked for 750 people deep in a forest near Yellowstone National Park.
Thom Hartmann: Happy Columbus Day -- If you celebrate Sex-Slavery & Genocide, that is...While Columbus once referred to the Taino Indians as cannibals, a story made up by Columbus - which is to this day still taught in some US schools - to help justify his slaughter and enslavement of these people.
New study blames Columbus for syphilis spreadFindings of new study brings stronger evidence to support the theory that Columbus brought Syphilis to Europe.
New study blames Columbus for syphilis spreadUS researchers say new genetic evidence supports the theory that Christopher Columbus brought syphilis to Europe from the New World, reviving a centuries-old debate about the origins of the disease.
Christopher Columbus' Real Discovery: SyphilisDiseases carried to North America by Spanish explorers killed millions of the continent's original inhabitants, but the trip cut both ways: scientists say Christopher Columbus took syphilis back to Europe.
Christopher Columbus: Hero or Murderer?The second Monday in October is celebrated across America as Columbus Day. It is a celebration of the man who discovered America. In school, children are taught that Christopher Columbus was a national hero. In actuality, the man was a murderer
Seeking Columbus's Origins, With a SwabDNA analysis may help solve a long-running dispute between those who would claim alternative bragging rights to Christopher Columbus.
They are considered to be the First Americans although they existed long before there was even an America. In fact they roamed North and South America for at least 10 to 20 thousand years before Christopher Columbus stumbled upon the landmass.
Obama endorsed by West, other campaign news and analysisBarack Obama confronts issues of his "not being black enough." Also other political round up on the campaign trail.
Who Really Sailed the Ocean Blue in 1492?Genovese nobleman or Catalan pirate? Adventurous explorer or greedy tyrant? What if the Italian gentleman who discovered America was in fact a brutal torturer and slave owner? And what if he wasn't even Italian?
Columbus Birth Riddle UnsolvedBut hopes of confirming him Italian remain (ANSA) - Madrid, October 11 - DNA studies have so far been unable to lay to rest claims that Christopher Columbus was not Italian, but researchers are still hoping to settle the point .
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