Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World tramping around museum collections rifled from the Old. He visited Coney Island, dined at Hammerstein's Roof Garden, and was "quietly amused" by his first movie. Freud called America "a gigantic mistake," and wrote pettishly that "tobacco ... is the only excuse I know for Columbus' misdeed...
...clear glass has become more widespread in the new churches partly for reasons of economy and where stained glass is used, it is of lighter and simpler design. Gables tend to be high, with long, sloping roofs, as m St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Columbus. This "tent" construction lends itself well to expansion by making it relatively simple to increase the length of the nave...
...glory roll: Lorenzo de' Medici, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Leonardo da Vinci. Good Florentine that he was, he had no trouble mixing an interest in art and ideas with the art of business. While he was in Seville, Spain, as an agent for Florentine interests, he came to know Columbus and King Ferdinand, who gave him the chance to go on voyages that resulted in the first useful maps of the New World's continental coastline...
...Columbus had been given the proud title of Admiral of the Ocean Sea, but his rewards could more accurately be measured in abuse than in wealth or glory. Amerigo was made Pilot Major by King Ferdinand for all of Spain, and no captain could sail without the certificate that Amerigo alone could issue. His voyages may have been as epochal as Author Arciniegas says they were, but for centuries one school of historians has held that he chivvied his friend Columbus out of his due. Even Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "strange . . . that broad America must wear the name...
...first two voyages Columbus discovered Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, etc. Only on his third voyage (1498) did he reach the mainland. Author Arciniegas claims that Amerigo actually reached the continent the year before. From the meager evidence (mainly letters), other scholars doubt this, believe that Amerigo followed Columbus by a year...