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  2. List of places named for Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia

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    Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. 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

  3. Columbia (personification) - Wikipedia

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    Since 1800, the name Columbia has been used for a wide variety of items and places: The naming of the New World and of the newly independent country of Colombia after Christopher Columbus in the early 19th century is discussed at Colombia § Etymology. In the 1840s, British Columbia, which is now a province of Canada, was named by Queen Victoria.

  4. List of monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus

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    Christopher Columbus Statue (1970, 1986, 1995) located at Columbus Plaza (W. Main Street and Lawrence Hill Rd.) Lackawanna. Bust of Christopher Columbus (1940) located at Bethlehem Park, Madison Ave. Lindenhurst. Columbus Monument (1991) 7-foot-tall monument [186] Mahopac. Christopher Columbus Statue (1992) located at Thompson & McAlpin Streets ...

  5. 20 Foods You Didn't Know Were Named After People - AOL

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    And the next time you're in a diner order scrambled eggs a la Columbus, a heart-stopping assemblage of eggs, ham, fried blood pudding, and beef brains named in honor of Christopher Columbus, and ...

  6. Lists of places - Wikipedia

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    List of places named after people. List of things named after Queen Anne; List of places named for Lewis Cass; List of places named for DeWitt Clinton; List of places named for Christopher Columbus; List of places named for the Marquis de Lafayette; List of places named after Saint Francis; List of places named for Benjamin Franklin

  7. Category:Lists of places named after people - Wikipedia

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    List of places named for Christopher Columbus; List of convention centers named after people; List of places named after James Cook; F.

  8. 21 Facts You Never Learned About Christopher Columbus

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    After his first trip in 1492, Columbus returned to the colony Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic) in 1493, visited Trinidad and the South American mainland in 1498, and ...

  9. Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe ...

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    MADRID, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a ...