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4 days ago · This past week the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled 7 to 0 to reinstate a lawsuit to prevent the removal of Pittsburgh’s Christopher Columbus statue from Schenley Park. The suit was filed by the Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA), the largest Italian American fraternal association in Pennsylvania, founded in ...
1 day ago · A Pennsylvania appeals court has kept alive an Italian heritage group’s challenge to efforts by the city of Pittsburgh to remove a statue of Christopher Columbus from a city park.
5 days ago · On April 30, 1492, Christopher Columbus, an ambitious navigator from Genoa, was named admiral of the ocean, viceroy, and governor of any territory he claimed for Spain.
4 days ago · The illustration of the world according to Columbus. When Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic in 1492, his understanding of the world was significantly different from our current geographical knowledge. To fully appreciate how Columbus viewed the...
5 days ago · The familial milieu enveloping Christopher Columbus spotlights the convergence of personal aspirations with broader historical narratives, illustrating how his private sphere was intricately interwoven with his public triumphs and the epochal transformations they wrought upon the world.
5 days ago · Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts. 1. Born in 1451, Christopher was born into a family of limited means. It has been written, that as a young boy he used to hang out with mariners that were much older than he to learn something of their travels. Not much is written of Columbus' early work history.
3 days ago · A cruel episode in Mexican history was discovered in the sediment off the country's north coast in 2020, when maritime archaeologists confirmed that a wrecked paddle steamer was the notorious La ...
