Video Of The Week - It's Columbus Day!
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On August 3rd, 1492 an Italian explorer by the name of Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain to seek out a new route to India. On October 12th, 1492, after sailing across the Atlantic Ocean for 10 weeks, a crew member sighted land and the adventurer thought he had arrived . . . . . To India.
Of course, as we all know it was not the Asian subcontinent, but a small island in the Bahamas that Columbus named San Salvador. Since then, the explorer's arrival is celebrated by many countries in the Americas and also Spain.
In the USA it is called Columbus or Discoverer's day and is observed on the second Monday of October. Latin Americans call it Dia De La Raza, while the Spanish call it Dia De La Hispanidad. Both, celebrate it on October 12th, the actual day the Spaniard reached the mainland of what he thought was India. Whether you are celebrating it today or four days from now, have a great holiday.
Happy Columbus Day!
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- gabbyabout 13 yearslove the vidoe
tebowswifeabout 13 yearsI don't celebrate Colombus Day. What that guy did was extremely wrong. He killed many people for gold and stuff. Boo!!!! Booo!!! He also took over their land and made them all slaves! Different idea now? Yeah. I thought so....
acepatchabout 13 yearsI completely agree
- 1774572gagaabout 13 yearsthis is cool
iamironmanabout 13 yearsVery informational. They left out that he enslaved the natives and forced them to look for gold.- friendlyabout 13 yearsi loved this article because there was things i did not know about and i want to learn more about famous people
- stacieabout 13 yearsi did not know he sailed for so long
- williamabout 13 yearsi like to move it move it!
t_gabout 13 yearsthis is ok- kateabout 13 yearsi just love that day
- sabout 13 yearsomg