Word: columbian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thieves stole two pre-Columbian gold artifacts valued at more than $2000 from the Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology last week, officials disclosed yesterday...
What actually transpired was a quick, nicely-controlled Lion drive down the right wing, followed by a Steve Pratten cross to 6-ft. 4-in. freshman, Amer Aly, who simply out-towered Crimson midfielder Leo Lanzillo to head the ball past Erulcar for the second bit of Columbian gold...
Terry Fox, 22, is a fitness-minded British Columbian who played soccer and basketball at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver-until 3½ years ago, when he learned that he had bone cancer. His right leg was amputated above the knee in March 1977, a blow that seemed certain to rule out further athletic achievement. Yet this summer, Fox caught the imagination of Canadians by attempting an extraordinarily punishing feat as a long-distance runner. On April 12 he set out from St. John's, Newfoundland, intent on running 5,300 miles across the continent to Vancouver...
...official mag azine China Reconstructs, Maritime Historian Fang Zhongpu purports to solve the puzzle. His prime evidence: a 35-kg (80-lb.) doughnut-shaped stone discovered in 1972 off Point Conception, near Santa Barbara, Calif. Fang says that the stone is a clear sign of a pre-Columbian Chinese visitation, and he cites the testimony of some American scientists to back...