Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came from Asia via Alaska, and the Norwegians, Danes and Irish appear to have found their way to our eastern coast about the year A.D. 1000. If they discovered America, nobody knew it. Now, with the land full of people and automobiles, those who are here by reason of Columbus' notable discovery are telling us that Columbus did not discover America...
...Internal Auditors, Farm and Power Equipment Dealers, Norwegian Singers Association of America, National Sash and Door Jobbers, Odd Fellows, Jaycees, Telephone Pioneers, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Ancient Mystic Order of Bagmen of Bagdad, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (also Does), Knights of Pythias (also of Columbus, Equity, St. John, York and Templar), United Commercial Travelers, Automotive Dismantlers and Recyclers, neurologists, gynecologists, anesthesiologists, otorhinolaryngologists, Funeral Directors and Morticians, Sugar Beet Technologists and Hot Dip Galvanizers...
...near the coastal town of Blue Hill, it was belatedly identified by scholars as a Norse artifact dating back to the 11th century-making it the oldest European object ever found in the U.S. What is more, the find reopened all the old arguments about who really discovered America: Columbus or some Viking predecessors...
...Henricks Hodge he has produced pages of California poppies (Eschscholtzia) that seem to burst into orange flame. Line has selected 181 photos (modestly including only two of his own but eleven of Hodge's), showing in many-hued detail the strange life of epiphytes like those that amazed Columbus, and the infinitely varied floral array to be found in jungles, pampas, steppes and deserts. Hodge's text, despite a deplorable text layout, is as clear as it is authoritative. And the work of the 68 superb photographers who contributed to the collection has no equal on any bookshelf...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Barry Goldwater Jr., 40, five-term Republican Congressman from California and son of the Arizona Senator; from Susan Gherman Goldwater, 32, host of the Ohio talk show Columbus Alive; after six years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles...