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Christopher Columbus took only 33 days to cross the Atlantic and discover the New World island he christened San Salvador in 1492. Yet he left no marker, and scholars have spent nearly 500 years since in debating the site. On the eastern rim of the Bahamas, Rum Cay, Grand Turk and Cat Island have been suggested. In 1942 Columbus Biographer Samuel Eliot Morison declared that the landfall was Watling Island, today's San Salvador...
...Boston’s theater district that doubles as a popular and intimate music venue. Unable to remember the exact date in the interview, Zaccagnino spins around to expose the back of his white t-shirt, where the date of the launch party is printed. Underneath in magic marker, he has written the date of the 2005 CD launch party, which took place at a College pub night...
Armed with nothing but a dry-erase marker and two whiteboards, Russert staged several electoral-vote scenarios for his NBC-viewing “students,” in an attempt to illustrate just why the 43rd president would be determined by Florida’s 27 votes in the Electoral College...
...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
...first varsity eight overcame Yale’s four-seat advantage at 1,000 meters, stalled the Bulldogs’ push at the midway mark and pulled even in the third 500. Once Harvard reached the final 500-meter marker, the Crimson powered its way to a 2.4 second victory...