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Columbus' city website provides a trash and recycling calendar showing Columbus Day as a holiday. Upcoming holidays include Veterans Day (Nov. 11), Thanksgiving (Nov. 28), Christmas, and New Year ...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Columbus Day as a national holiday in 1934 (originally observed on October 12) to commemorate the landing of explorer Christopher Columbus in the ...
Columbus Day, held on the second Monday of October, is meant to celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492. It became a federal ...
Second half of July: Cornhusker State Games (multi-location event) [24] Early August: Lancaster County Fair [25] Second weekend in August: Capital City Ribfest [26] Late August: Lincoln ZombieFest; [27] Nebraska Mud Run [28] Late August to late November: University of Nebraska Cornhusker Football [29]
Gottschalk was an immigrant from Germany, and a co-founder of Columbus. [2] The cabin is considered the oldest such structure in Nebraska. [3] Their son, L. Frederick Gottchalk, built a two-story house next to it in 1911; it was designed in the Colonial Revival style by architect Charles Wurdeman. [2]
Columbus quickly outgrew Williams High. A new facility was built in 1898 for approximately $24,000. The building was called one of the "finest public schools to date" in Nebraska. An addition was added in 1904, and it was used as the high school until 1925 when it became Columbus Junior High School. The building was demolished in the late 1950s.
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Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated her support for renaming Columbus Day Monday after her past comments on the contentious topic resurfaced, prompting the Trump campaign and others to accuse ...