Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 11 issue of TIME under Miscellany, I noticed an article about Mrs. Christian Sells Jaeger of Columbus, Ohio, claiming descent from Adam...
Haiti. Because the steersman was careless, Christopher Columbus' flagship Santa Maria went hopelessly aground somewhere off Haiti on Christmas Eve, 1492. The ship was unloaded and from her timbers the doughty admiral, bent on founding a colony, built a fort which he called La Navidad-his first New World settlement. Columbus traded falcon bells to the natives for gold, left 44 of his men in charge, sailed off to new adventures. When he returned to the island during his second voyage he found the fort burned, the men massacred by natives or scattered in the wilds. The question remained...
Died. Henry Augustus Lukeman, 64, sculptor of outdoor memorial statuary (President McKinley for Adams, Mass, and Dayton, Ohio; Columbus for Manhattan; Daniel Boone for Paris, Ky.; Jefferson Davis for Washington and Lexington, Ky.); of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1925, after the ousting of Gutzon Borglum, Virginia-born Sculptor Lukeman was called in to complete the Confederate Memorial on Stone Mountain, Ga., produced an equestrian group which was unveiled in 1928. Work has since been suspended for lack of funds...
Wrote Christopher Columbus: "In the same month that Their Majesties [King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella] issued the edict that all Jews should be driven out of the Kingdom and its territories-in that same month they gave me the order to undertake my expedition of discovery...
...stock company chestnut, retitled The Girl from Childs in 1950. Beforehand the director had announced: "Serious [i. e., stark naked] presentation is not possible at present. We have to cope with the law. The cast will wear as little as possible." The pressagent said: "As was the case when Columbus spoke of a new route to India, tremendous obstacles have been placed in the way of the new enterprise. . . . protests. . . . boycott. . . . We have refused to be intimidated." Hefty Heroine Theodora Peck said: "You're just a nudist when you are one. You aren't directed by a vision...