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 12 yearslove the vidoe
tebowswifeabout 12 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 12 yearsI completely agree
- 1774572gagaabout 12 yearsthis is cool
iamironmanabout 12 yearsVery informational. They left out that he enslaved the natives and forced them to look for gold.- friendlyabout 12 yearsi loved this article because there was things i did not know about and i want to learn more about famous people
- stacieabout 12 yearsi did not know he sailed for so long
- williamabout 12 yearsi like to move it move it!
t_gabout 12 yearsthis is ok- kateabout 12 yearsi just love that day
- sabout 12 yearsomg
