Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rough Weekend: Harvard is coming off of a less-than-super Columbus Day Weekend as the team tied Ivy rival Cornell 1-1 on Saturday and lost to intra-state rival Holy Cross 3-2 on Monday...
Mather House residents were awakened early on Columbus Day as a wooden bench crashed through the superintendent's main office window...
Fuentes, a former Mexican diplomat and visiting professor at Harvard, discussed the legacy and significance for the nations of Central and South America of celebrating the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage to the Americas...
Fuentes stressed both the horrifying and the positive results of Columbus' voyage for the "Indo-Afro-European" civilizations his arrival created...
...novelist said that as a result of the terrible cruelty of Columbus and the Spanish conquerors, the American Indian population of Central Mexico was decimated. In 1519, he said, the populations was about 25 million, but in 1605 it dropped to a mere 2 million...