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However, Columbus would never find Cathay (China) or Zipangu , and there was no longer any Great Khan for trade treaties. In 1494, Columbus sent Alonso de Ojeda (whom a contemporary described as "always the first to draw blood wherever there was a war or quarrel") to Cibao (where gold was being mined), [ 94 ] which resulted in Ojeda's capturing ...
Peace is a 1922 bronze sculpture by Bruce Wilder Saville. The sculpture is installed on Capitol Square , the Ohio Statehouse grounds, in Columbus, Ohio . Description
Statue of Christopher Columbus (Columbus City Hall) (1955, removed in 2020) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Columbus State Community College) (1959, removed in 2020) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Ohio Statehouse) (c.1890–1892) Lorain City. Columbus Monument located at Meister Rd. Mayfield Heights
Columbus Street, Columbus, Ohio, U.S. Interstate 10 in California , U.S. was designated and signed as the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway from 1976 to 2022 Asia
Columbus exaggerates the size of these lands, claiming Juana is greater in size than Great Britain ("maior que Inglaterra y Escocia juntas") and Hispaniola larger than the Iberian peninsula ("en cierco tiene mas que la Espana toda"). In his letter, Columbus seems to attempt to present the islands of the Indies as suitable for future ...
The city of Columbus also stopped recognizing the federal Columbus Day holiday as a city holiday. There have been efforts by Italian Americans to get the city of Columbus to put the city-owned ...
When it comes to racial parity, Columbus lags behind other cities — by hundreds of years. A study shows that it will take Black Columbus residents 700 years to get opportunities to improve their ...
Christopher Columbus died on May 20, 1506, in Valladolid. His death occurred in this city because he was following the itinerant Court of Ferdinand the Catholic. [1] The exact location of his death is unknown, but it could have been either in a modest inn or in the house of a sailor named Gil García where he was a guest.