Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thurber Album. Back through the turns of time with James Thurber of Columbus, Ohio (TIME, June...
...Thurber Album. Back through the turns of time with James Thurber of Columbus, Ohio (TIME, June...
...Thurber Album. Back through the turns of time with James Thurber of Columbus, Ohio (TIME, June...
Jewels & Spices. Like any good housekeeper, she managed to tidy up a number of historical mysteries. For one thing, she unearthed copies of the much-debated Columbus "Entail of Property," in which Ferdinand and Isabella gave their Admiral the right to one tenth of all the spices and jewels he might discover. For another, she also did away with an age-old libel on Columbus' men, whom historians had long assumed to be no more than a gang of ex-convicts. Actually, only four were ever near a jail. "Aside from these four," says Alice Gould proudly, "none...
...Goaded by the Dominican Torquemada, the King and Queen reluctantly signed an order for the expulsion of the Jews in the same year that their armies reduced Granada, the last stronghold of the Spanish Moors, and their protégé, Christopher Columbus, made his long voyage west. The beaten Moslems were permitted to remain in Spain-for a time-at the cost of paying their taxes to Ferdinand and Isabella. The Jews were given a harsher option: join the church or get out. Writes Jesuit Historian James Brodrick: "The majority honorably and bravely chose exile...