Word: columbus
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Ellen L. Convisser, president of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW), which organized the event, said that NOW received hundreds of phone calls over the Columbus Day weekend. She said that many of the callers expressed concern over the allegations of sexual harassment brought against Thomas by University of Oklahoma law professor Anita F. Hill...
Lombard said he was using Columbus Day to get ahead in his work...
...while classes were cancelled because of Columbus Day, some Canadian citizens took the day off to celebrate a national holiday of their...
Gone are the vast Highland forests of Scotland. Gone are the oceans of grass that graced the North American plains. Gone too are the lush Bahamian jungles that greeted Christopher Columbus and his sea-weary men. Today these lost landscapes, like vanished civilizations, exist only as mirages that dance in the mind's eye. And until recently, any notion that such priceless heirlooms might be reclaimed would have been dismissed as hopelessly quixotic...
Although today is the "official" date of National Coming-Out Day, it was celebrated early at Harvard because of the Columbus Day holiday...