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Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the ...
Official logo of the commemoration. The Columbus Quincentenary (1992) was the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' 1492 arrival in America.Similar to Columbus Day, the annual celebration of Columbus' arrival, the quincentenary was viewed contentiously, as different cultures and peoples had different ways of understanding Columbus' role in history.
Christopher Columbus may have sailed the ocean blue in 1492, but he never actually stepped foot on the continent of North America. These Cities (and States) Have Abandoned Columbus Day Skip to ...
The city symbolically renamed Columbus Day as "Indigenous Peoples' Day" beginning in 1992 [4] to protest the historical conquest of North America by Europeans, and to call attention to the losses suffered by the Native American peoples and their cultures [5] through diseases, warfare, massacres, and forced assimilation.
In 2008, Topica Edtech Group was founded as an education technology company whose mission is to promote high-quality online education among learners in Vietnam and South East Asia. [ 7 ] At the same time, following Harvard , Stanford , MIT and Duke University , Topica Edtech Group applied 3D simulation technology in teaching.
Institute for Sustainable Development of the Central Region (Viện Khoa học xã hội vùng Trung Bộ) Institute for Sustainable Development of the Central Highland- Viện Khoa học xã hội vùng Tây Nguyên; Institute of World Economics and Politics; Vietnam Institute of Economics; Institute of State and Law; Institute for Human Studies
HCMUSSH was formerly known as the College of Letters, University of Saigon (Vietnamese: Trường Đại học Văn khoa, Viện Đại học Sài Gòn). It is now the biggest research and training center in the field of social sciences and humanities in Southern Vietnam. In October 2021, HCMUSSH officially claimed their autonomy in the ...
This Week In History: On Oct. 13, 1992, American Indians lead a group of about 150 people at a Columbus Day protest at a replica of Christopher Columbus' ship the Santa Maria, which was docked in ...