Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upon being told that Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover America, a bulbous-nosed, sleepy-eyed Charles de Gaulle murmurs: "Eh bien, I congratulate him for that...
...19th century U.S. historian George Bancroft. His father, Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., who died six weeks ago at 77, was a pioneer in U.S. social and intellectual history, taught at Harvard for 30 years -seven of them while "Junior" was also on the faculty. Young Arthur was born in Columbus in 1917, while his father was teaching at Ohio State. In 1924, Harvard outbid
Vellucci was quite miffed over a recent allegations by members of the Yale faculty that Columbus did not discover America...
...VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION, by Thomas E. Marston, R. A. Skelton, and George D. Painter. Anyone who is interested in the controversy over whether Christopher Columbus was the true discoverer of the New World can dip into this pedantic tome for $15. Prepared by British Museum and Yale scholars who recently unearthed and authenticated a 1440 map that shows Greenland and a distorted North American continent, the book credits Leif Ericsson with a pre-Columbian look at the American shore...
...Italians have not asked, "Was the Vikings' sketch drawn in 1440?" or "Was Ericsson, in fact, the first discoverer of America?" To answer the question of "who got here first" on the basis of ethnocentrism is as backward as pre-Columbus thinking that "the world cannot be round...