Happy Columbus Day

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but when he returned from across the seas, he brought with him syphilis, a new disease …lol…

 

First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World; painting by Dióscoro Puebla (1862)

 

I like how that one guy in the painting he can't obviously swim so he's holding that rock for dear life meanwhile the guy in the armor should have been the first on shore but he's just peeking around the corner wondering what's up lol. Actually everyone on the right side boat looks like any person from the 4th row on back at a metal gig trying to get a view.

 

Hahaha I never looked that closely. lol

 

Oh you gotta look at old paintings closely You'd be surprised how much random shit you see lol.. Or just messed up shit too.

 

Columbus didn't “discover” America — he never set foot in North America. During four separate trips that started with the one in 1492, Columbus landed on various CIt's an annual holiday that commemorates the day on October 12, 1492, when the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus officially set foot in the Americas and claimed the land for Spain. It has been a national holiday in the United States since 1937. It is commonly said that "Columbus discovered America."Caribbean islands that are now the Bahamas as well as the island later called Hispaniola. He also explored the Central and South American coasts.



ost of us have heard the story of how Christopher Columbus “sailed the ocean blue” in 1492. How much do you know of Christopher Columbus beyond him landing in the New World on October 12, two months after he set sail from Spain? For the history buffs out there, here are 5 facts you might not know about Christopher Columbus.

His real name was Cristoforo Columbo.
Christopher Columbus is an Anglicized version of his Italian birth name Cristoforo Columbo. Columbus was likely not the first European to land in the New World.
Norse Viking Leif Eriksson is believed to have landed in Newfoundland around 1000, nearly 500 years before Columbus set sail. The Santa Maria wrecked on Columbus’ historic voyage.
On Christmas Eve, a cabin boy ran Columbus’s flagship into a coral reef on the northern coast of Hispaniola or near present-day Cap Haitien, Haiti. Columbus made four voyages to the New World.
Along with his first voyage in 1492, Columbus made three other voyages across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Islands, South America and Central America in 1493, 1498 and 1502. He never landed in North America. Columbus’s mission was not to prove that the earth was round.
According to History.com most educated people already knew at the time of Columbus that the earth was not flat. The purpose of Columbus’s trip was to find a water route to the eastern shore of Asia from Europe.

 

Now the Native Americans want the day changed to their day

 

Actually, the indigenous 'native Americans' were themselves immigrants - they crossed the Bering strait from Siberia. The United States government actually purchased Alaska from the Soviet Union. It could npw legitimately be said that the United States in reality belongs to Russia !!!

 

Oh my goodness. This will now be a debate!!! lol

 

They migrated into Alaska and northern Canada, south along the Pacific Coast, into the interior of Canada, and south to the Great Plains and the American Southwest. Na-Dené-speaking peoples were the earliest ancestors of the Athabascan-speaking peoples, including the present-day and historical Navajo and Apache.

https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-hailed-from-siberian-highlands-dna-reveals

 

Did the Welsh discover America before Columbus? I’ve heard this legend my whole life

Madoc - Wikipedia

 

#teamindigenouspeoplesday

 

Interesting.

 

What states do not recognize Columbus Day?
Non-observance
The states of Florida, Hawaii, Alaska, Vermont, South Dakota, New Mexico,and Maine do not recognize it and have each replaced it with celebrations of Indigenous People's Day (in Hawaii, Discoverers' Day, in South Dakota, Native American Day). Columbus Day also competes with Leif Erikson Day.

Columbus Day in the United States

 

Now I have to Google that. I am intrigued.