Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone knows that Christopher Columbus discovered America, but did he really? A Colombian diplomat and historian, Germán Arciniegas does not ask the question in his Amerigo and the New World, but the reader is bound to. Columbus boldly sailed through the curtain of fear and superstition that had kept men from trying the dread Atlantic crossing. But he died believing that he had reached Asia, never accepted the fact that the New World was really another continental land mass. The first man to name it the New World was the Florentine navigator and businessman Amerigo Vespucci; at least...
...underground railway, and keeping books for a traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine Man Asa T. Soule of Rochester put over by promoting a baseball team and a hilariously crooked sculling championship, invites comparison with Thurber's immortal tribute to the life-preserving elixirs...
...supersonic F-100 (TIME, Oct. 26, 1953), North American's Super-Sabre jet, already in operational units, will be produced at Los Angeles and Columbus, Ohio at the same rate...
...After a three-day meeting in Columbus, Ohio, 30 leaders from the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church announced that the two denominations would join June 25, 1957. Name of the new church: the United Church of Christ. With a membership of more than 2,000,000 (1,283,000 Congregationalists, 761,000 E. & R.), the United Church will become the sixth largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. (after the Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians and Episcopalians...
...relive it. A skilled yachtsman, he had to learn-as did the heroes of his classic The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860-the beauties and perils of the Atlantic coast. For his Pulitzer Prizewinning Admiral of the Ocean Sea he sailed 10,000 miles retracing the course of Columbus, and during World War II (he retired from the Navy as a rear admiral) he collected seven battle stars while also collecting first-hand material for his monumental history of naval operations...