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RACINE — You can’t blame locals for having Christopher Columbus on the brain these days. With replicas of his ships the Niña and the Pinta docked in the Rooney Pugh Recreational Area since ...
In 1504, during his fourth trans-Atlantic voyage, Christopher Columbus found himself stranded on the shores of Jamaica. His ...
In 1504, Christopher Columbus, on his fourth trans-Atlantic voyage, was stranded on the shores of Jamaica, with his ships crawling with marine worms and his crew hungry.
In April 1492, King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to sponsor Columbus’s proposed voyage. On Aug. 3, 1492, three modest ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, set sail.
A rare copy of a letter from Columbus to Spain's royals detailing his voyage vanished from a Venice museum in the 1980s. U.S. authorities have repatriated it to Rome after a yearslong investigation.
A bronze statue of Christopher Columbus commissioned in 1892 in New York City's Central Park was vandalized Monday with the words "Murderer" and "Land Back" sprayed in red paint.
But what about Christopher Columbus and cannabis. RELATED: ... dried fish, hardtack biscuits, beans, lentils, and cheese, meant to last the duration of the voyage.
Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer credited for connecting the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) and the New World (North America and South America). Born in Genoa, Italy ...
This year marks the 525th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first Transatlantic expedition, a voyage that the Italian explorer expected would take him to Asia. Instead, his crew sighted land ...