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2 days ago · In October of 1492, the Spanish monarchs sponsored a voyage led by Columbus and his crew, who intended to sail towards India. Instead, they set foot in the Americas for the first time. Over the next several years, Columbus made many trips back and forth between Spain and the Caribbean Islands.
3 days ago · The Vikings Arrived in America First. Columbus was about 500 years late to be the first European to discover America, thanks to Leif Eriksson. Britannica states that his voyage to the lands they ...
1 day ago · Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus and continuing for over three centuries, the Spanish Empire would expand across the Caribbean Islands, half of South America, most of Central America and much of North America.
4 days ago · Abulafia cites a famous and revealing passage by a boastful Italian gentleman and friend of Christopher Columbus, Michele da Cuneo, in which the Italian was ‘granted’ by Columbus a gorgeous naked Cannibal woman.
5 days ago · While masters sought to create an ordered world where their control was complete, slaves attempted to create homes, grow food and raise families. Former slaves describe growing flowers, building furniture, and hanging pictures to make the spaces their own.
2 days ago · The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"). The Confederacy had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union.
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5 days ago · Unveiled on October 12, 1892 on the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage to the Americas, the statue sculpted by Roman sculptor Gaetano Russo was gifted to the city by the Italian-Americans...
