Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Service Charge. In Columbus, Ohio, Albert French complained that when he fell through the third-story window of a hotel and landed unhurt, the manager billed him for the broken glass...
...preach the Christian gospel, but rabbis thundered back the teachings of Moses. Some Jews were converted. The majority preferred to leave their homes and their wealth behind. Many Jews removed tombstones from their cemeteries and took them along into exile. Their last ships left Spain the day before Columbus sailed for the New World...
Before setting off with wife Eleanor Holm on a four-month round-the-world tour, Columnist Billy Rose explained: "My world has been bounded by the flea circus on 42nd Street and the statue up at Columbus Circle, and I figure it can do my perspective nothing but good to take a hinge at how the other 99.9 percent lives...
John Woodard of Winthrop House and Columbus, Ohio; Winthrop House Dance Committee; Winthrop House Glee Club; Winthrop House Debate Team
...admiral's story was also due for a clapperclawing. Burrowing in the archives of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Historian Tivadar Acs announced, he had found 130 documents which "reveal that Christopher Columbus was a pirate in the French service...