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4 days ago · Europeans dreamed of crossing the Isthmus of Panama from their first encounters, when Columbus and other explorers learned from Indigenous Americans about a vast open sea on the other side of the narrow strip of land.
2 days ago · Columbus Day marks Christopher Columbus’s arrival in what is now known as the Bahamas on October 12, 1492. While many celebrate this day by remembering his voyages that connected Europe with unknown lands, leading eventually to permanent European settlements in North America – it also invites us to look deeper into history’s pages at ...
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4 days ago · What You Should Know About Christopher Columbus John Vanderlyn, “The Landing of Columbus,” 1847 (photo: Public Domain) Christopher Columbus was a man with a Catholic faith that embraced eternity, and a man very much limited by his times and circumstance.
6 days ago · The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America to South America via Central America and vice ...
4 days ago · In 1492, the exploratory voyages of Christopher Columbus led to a transatlantic exchange, including migrations of European settlers during the Age of Discovery and the early modern period.
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They’ll follow clues in the original text and artwork of a 19th century book called “Picturesque America” created over one-hundred fifty years ago when a group of daring explorers, artists and writers set out to discover the beauty of our land and cities and returned with intrepid tales and intricate engravings that would become the very ...
4 days ago · The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
