In 1893 Chicago held a huge fair, the World's Columbian Exposition, ostensibly to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas but in reality to bind together the city's squabbling immigrants and fractious social groups with a bit of cultural adhesive.
Europe's map makers may have had an inkling of the Americas long before Columbus's voyage in 1492.
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That use survives today in phrases like Columbus's (all right, Leif Ericsson's, if you must) discovery of America.
Claire had to patiently explain that Columbus's landing and the Pilgrims' arrival occurred a thousand miles and 128 years apart.
As for dates, I'd mislaid an entire century, the one separating Columbus's sail in 1492 from Jamestown's founding in 16-0-something.
He gives a vivid account of the visit of Christopher Columbus's modern successors to the Indian pueblos in 1992, where each chief was given a gold-tipped cane as a gesture of apology.
For someone who has made so much of his southern, son-of-a-mill-worker roots, he offered an oddly bland speech, with only one reference to growing up in the Carolinas and none to Columbus's plight.
Europe's Columbus space lab arrived last month, joining Nasa's own research base at the station, a module called Destiny that has been in space since 2001.
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"The bottom line is you should try to do whatever you can to maintain the family in the best care, " said Michael Brady, chair of the pediatrics department at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and a member of the AAP's immunization committee.
Rabbits and Carrots is the strangest name for a funk band this side of Columbus, Ohio's Suspicious Can Openers.
He collaborated on the screenplays for the 1974 disaster movie Earthquake, 1980's Superman II and 1984's Christopher Columbus, The Discovery.
As the chief investment officer for Columbus, Ohio's Huntington Bank, B.
The city's annual Columbus Day parade began as scheduled Monday.
The U.S. bond markets and government offices will be closed on Monday in observance of Columbus Day, but the U.S. stock exchanges will operate on normal hours.
All of the tainted meat is believed to have been produced at Hudson's plant in Columbus.
Every family ran a tab at Tragone's, on Columbus, for clothes and shoes.
Now, another institution, Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, will soon launch another study of Sanfilippo syndrome as it works on a potential treatment.
But even so, he would have bet five to one his future lay somewhere between that wall on Powell Street and the foot of Columbus -- Fisherman's Wharf.
All the more reason for the eyes of Ohioans, and indeed the Nation, to be on Wednesday's hearing in Columbus of the House Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Securities Committee.
The Rangers received top-line forward Rick Nash from the Blue Jackets in a trade last July that sent Brandon Dubinsky, Artem Anisimov, Tim Erixon and a first-round pick in this year's draft to Columbus.
An isolated, eccentric community near New Mexico's boot heel, Columbus sits just three dusty miles from the international border.
She stated that she had hitchhiked from a neighbor's house to the Columbus, Ohio Greyhound bus station on July 20, 2009.
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Most exotic of all were America's people, whom Columbus named los Indios, Verrazzano called la genta de la terra, and the early English referred to as the Naturals.
Take LaRocca's Corner, up on Columbus: the building was owned by an uncle of the pitcher, Ciccio LaRocca.
NPR's Frank Langfitt traveled to Columbus where Pryce is in a tight race that could help decide control of the House of Representatives.
However, he did add that at least some of the return could take the form of equipment procured for use on the space station's European science laboratory, Columbus.
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Estelle Irizarry, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, has analyzed the language and syntax of hundreds of handwritten letters, diaries and documents of Columbus and concluded that the explorer's primary written and spoken language was Castilian Spanish.
If they had a good day selling papers -- they had enough to give to their mammas, and then some -- Frank would stop with the other guys at the U.S. Restaurant, on Columbus: fried ham on French bread, a big sandwich for a dime.
With the U.S. government closed for the Columbus Day holiday Monday there were no economic reports released.
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