Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Minority Student Alliance's table on"Understanding Columbus Day" in front of Widener,Jean Tom '96 offered the most sweeping explanationfor the day's weather...
...first suit to reach trial, now under way in Columbus, Georgia, growers claim that Du Pont had determined through its own tests that the fungicide, Benlate, was improperly mixed with the herbicide sulfonylurea, yet failed to notify users or the Environmental Protection Agency as required by law. Farmers also accuse the company of furthering the cover-up by refusing to turn over crucial documents to the farmers' attorneys...
...half hours, twenty-six songs take us through "Marvin's Regression," as we watch Marvin turn fourteen, break hearts, fall in love with women, fall in love with men, get married for ten years, have a son, have seizures, have breakfast, have sex and fantasize recurringly about being Christopher Columbus...
Frank Zindler, a Columbus, Ohio, biologist and biblical scholar, was furious after seeing the special. He had been asked to appear in a subsequent Sun International production called Ancient Secrets of the Bible II, which aired on CBS in May. Zindler backed out of his taping appointment and fired off a letter to CBS, calling the ark program "an attempt to show that modern science is wrong and Bronze Age mythology is correct." Earlier, Zindler began having qualms about his interview when he received instructions from Sun International revealing that "most of the pro-con arguments are pre-scripted...
KNOW-IT-ALLS ARE fond of pointing out that the only true Americans are the descendants of the diverse tribes found by Columbus and Cortes when they first arrived in the New World. That's wrong, of course. Even North and South American Indians had immigrants for ancestors: northeastern Asians who crossed from Siberia to Alaska in prehistoric times across the bridge of land that then spanned the Bering Strait...