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Christopher Columbus [b] (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; [2] between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian [3] [c] explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa [3] [4] who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
Christopher Columbus Statue (1892) located at South Main & Stockton Streets (St. Philip & St James School) Ridgefield. Bust of Christopher Columbus (1975) located at Englehart Terrace (Edgewater Avenue & Shaler Boulevard) Scotch Plains. Christopher Columbus Monument (1998) located at 430 Park Ave. (Municipal Building) Secaucus
From the early 15th century to the early 17th century the Age of Discovery had, through Portuguese seafarers, and later, Spanish, Dutch, French and English, opened up southern Africa, the Americas (New World), Asia and Oceania to European eyes: Bartholomew Dias had sailed around the Cape of southern Africa in search of a trade route to India; Christopher Columbus, on four journeys across the ...
Dittrick Museum of Medical History, Cleveland; Indiana Medical History Museum, Indianapolis; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; Medical History Museum, Dr. Christopher S. Best House and Office, Middleburgh, New York
A medical museum is an institution that stores and exhibits objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest that have a link to medicine or health. Displays often include models, instruments, books and manuscripts, as well as medical images and the technologies used to capture them (such as X-ray machines ). [ 1 ]
COSI, the Center of Science and Industry, opened to the public on March 29 1964, with the original location on East Broad Street in downtown Columbus.
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906. (ed., Different version available) Young, Alexander Bell Filson, Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery; a Narrative, with a Note on the Navigation of Columbus's First Voyage by the Earl of Dunraven, v. 2.
The second set of exhibits explores the history of the company, from its earliest days as a foundry, making products by hand, to surviving the Great Depression, to the modern era of mechanization ...