Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casa de la Lonja. There, head bent low, she still pores over the endless viceroys' reports, ships' logs and diaries. But in all the decades she has been in Seville, her chief target has never changed: today, she is the world's leading expert on Columbus' crew...
...sights on the target almost the first day she entered the Archives. It was then that she happened to discover a document concerning a man named Pedro de Lepe, one of the most controversial figures aboard the Santa Maria. A longtime Columbus enthusiast, Alice Gould knew that most historians doubted De Lepe ever existed. The document, she felt, furnished absolute proof that...
Researcher Gould decided that she would track down every last one of Columbus' followers. Some historians had thought that there were 60 men on the expedition; others said 71; still others said 108. By combing through Columbus' letters, hunting down birth certificates, digging up royal payrolls, Alice Gould finally set the figure at 89. Then she turned to the larger task of writing a monumental book which would contain a biography of each...
...Columbus, Ohio...
...Thurber Album. Back through the turns of time with James Thurber of Columbus, Ohio (TIME, June...