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DANIEL C. CARROLL ’09 of Columbus, Ohio and Adams House Advertising Manager...
...answer, of course, is that the cross's iconography was a lot simpler than Mexican history. I called Charles C. Mann, author of the highly respected history 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Mann first noted a couple of anachronisms in the film. The Mayan capital, including any great temple of the sort in the film, had mysteriously disappeared 700 years before the Spanish arrived. Moreover, although the Mayans probably engaged in some human sacrifice, there is no evidence that they practiced it on the industrial scale depicted in the movie For that, as the Guggenheim exhibit suggested...
...Florida in the title game to play for the right to get blown out by Ohio State in January. It was the Wolverines, as you’ll remember, whose only loss was to that undefeated No. 1 Buckeye squad, a three-point road defeat three weeks ago in Columbus. And the Gators struggled mightily in their conquering of the SEC—the most overrated and over-hyped conference in college football...
...London, Paris or Milan." Yet it is fitting that what is bound to become the prototype for a new era of shopping malls should be in the city that invented the concept. After all, the Grand Bazaar, the world's first covered market, has been trading since before Columbus landed in the Americas and contains some 4,000 shops, banks, cafés, a police station and a post office...
This extension would, of course, require making up those days elsewhere in the semester, but trading Columbus Day and Veteran’s Day holidays for a real shot at Thanksgiving at home seems worth it. This leaves one class day unaccounted for, but sacrificing that day’s classes is well worth the advantage of a contiguous nine-day vacation. And if it is untenable for the College to give up one day, it can follow Princeton’s model: Begin classes on the Thursday before our normal Monday start, and have students pick up one extra...