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- Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
How To Use Christopher Columbus In A Sentence
- The 47th Annual Columbus Day Parade was held in New York city this week starting from October 11 to celebrate the spirit of exploration that inspired Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition.
- This activity is almost Zen-like, though the NSNC's Zen-ologist resigned in late 1491 -- just missing the chance to join Christopher Columbus in the first edition of Who's Who in the New World. Dave Astor: One Complete Idiot's Guide to Hospitality Suite Scrapbooks
- In 1492, Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the Western Hemisphere in The Bahamas.
- He will follow the route of Christopher Columbus's third crossing from Cadiz in Spain to the Port of Spain in Trinidad.
- The sudden appearance of Europeans after the first landfall of Christopher Columbus in 1492 had a cataclysmic effect upon them.
- Most law school curricula is very much the same as in the days of Christopher Columbus Langdell, with the addition of niche topics and seminars, and laptop hookups. Archive 2005-12-01
- When Christopher Columbus asked the West Indian savages what they called their dug-outs they said _canoas_; so a boat dug out of a solid log had the first right to the word we now use for a canoe built up out of several different parts. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
- The most famous was, of course, Christopher Columbus, a Genoese mariner sailing for Spain.
- Lunar eclipses - like that advantageously interpreted by Christopher Columbus in 1504-may more easily be used because they can be seen over a much wider area.
- Yet while the quadricentennial of Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage was marked by the extraordinary Columbian Exposition in Chicago, its 500th anniversary was observed with a kind of shamefaced silence. A Forgotten Explorateur
