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Christopher Columbus
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  • Then I wished that Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner had killed all whitefolks in their beds and that Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and that Harriet Tubman had been killed by that blow on her head and Christopher Columbus had drowned in the Santa Maria.†   (source)
  • "You," he said, "are just in time for a great documentary on Christopher Columbus."†   (source)
  • The buildings have tiled floors and clean white walls and ceilings, and paintings by Haitian artists, the soothing kind, full of color, which reimagine the tropical paradise that the journals of Christopher Columbus describe.†   (source)
  • Suffice it to say, the Norse explored North America and even built settlements around the year 1000, almost five hundred years before Christopher Columbus.†   (source)
  • I undress quickly and get way down deep under the quilt where it is warm, very warm, and think for a long time about snowfields and winds and Christopher Columbus.†   (source)
  • Celia rests in the interior patio of the plaza, where royal palms dwarf a marble statue of Christopher Columbus.†   (source)
  • Songs older than Christopher Columbus, maybe even older than Christopher the saint.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, Christopher Columbus," Ruby said.†   (source)
  • The term "pre-Columbian" is in reference to Christopher Columbus.
    Christopher Columbus = Italian navigator who accidentally discovered the New World
  • It bore no resemblance to the Christopher Columbus I remembered.†   (source)
  • Though I had been in the Christopher Columbus years before, I had practically forgotten it.†   (source)
  • On the outside, the Hotel Christopher Columbus looked as ordinary as an elementary school, just as I remembered.†   (source)
  • The Christopher Columbus was built out of three old houses, strategically connected by a series of back courtyards, corridors, and specially constructed bridges.†   (source)
  • One afternoon when they saw I was a little livelier than usual, they invited me to the Christopher Columbus, hoping that a pleasing woman would help me recover my good humor.†   (source)
  • Thus, thanks to her commercial vision, which had led her to create a different atmosphere in every available corner, the Hotel Christopher Columbus had become the paradise of lost souls and furtive lovers.†   (source)
  • She told me that the Christopher Columbus was a thriving business and that every year she renovated part of the decor, replacing the stranded hulls of Polynesian shipwrecks with severe monastic cloisters, and baroque garden swings with torture racks, depending on the latest fashion.†   (source)
  • In those days, the Christopher Columbus was flourishing, but it hadn't yet acquired the international reputation it attained when it appeared on the navigational charts of the British shipping companies and in all the guidebooks, and when they showed it on television.†   (source)
  • Together they had lifted the Christopher Columbus out of the ruin in which the phony French madam had left it, and had worked to transform it into a social event and historic monument whose reputation was passed by word of mouth from sailor to sailor on the farthest seas.†   (source)
  • "All right, Christopher Columbus," continued Luke, good-humoredly.†   (source)
  • Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic.†   (source)
  • Oh, Christopher Columbus, Christopher Columbus, what did you do when you discovered America?'†   (source)
  • "Well," he began hesitatingly, "well, you have heard of Christopher Columbus, eh?"†   (source)
  • My father seemed to his visitor to be beside himself at the duplicity of Christopher Columbus.†   (source)
  • "That Christopher Columbus was a cheat," he declared emphatically.†   (source)
  • Did you ever hear of Christopher Columbus?†   (source)
  • This is one of the reasons why Christopher Columbus assumed the existence of a New World.†   (source)
  • The cess-pool had its Christopher Columbus.†   (source)
  • Don't put your hands behind you, or stare, or say 'Christopher Columbus!' will you?†   (source)
  • Nobody ever HAD built above Fortieth Street—no, says I, nor above the Battery either, before Christopher Columbus discovered America.†   (source)
  • Do you suppose Christopher Columbus would have taken all that trouble just to go to the Opera with the Selfridge Merrys?†   (source)
  • He declared it was wrong to teach children that Christopher Columbus was a great man when, after all, he cheated at the critical moment.†   (source)
  • Christopher Columbus!†   (source)
  • Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher Columbus and of De Ruyter is one of the masterpieces of man.†   (source)
  • I'm unwilling to say that there was mutiny on board, but after a reasonable period of intransigence, Commander Farragut, like Christopher Columbus before him, asked for a grace period of just three days more.†   (source)
  • The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against Christopher Columbus,— this is the same revolt; impious revolt; why?†   (source)
  • Similar events were likewise observed in Pacific seas, on July 23 of the same year, by the Christopher Columbus from the West India & Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Consequently, this extraordinary cetacean could transfer itself from one locality to another with startling swiftness, since within an interval of just three days, the Governor Higginson and the Christopher Columbus had observed it at two positions on the charts separated by a distance of more than 700 nautical leagues.†   (source)
  • Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which Christopher Columbus is doing for America with the compass; Alexander like Columbus, is finding a world.†   (source)
  • Shane O'Neill, Father John Murphy, Owen Roe, Patrick Sarsfield, Red Hugh O'Donnell, Red Jim MacDermott, Soggarth Eoghan O'Growney, Michael Dwyer, Francy Higgins, Henry Joy M'Cracken, Goliath, Horace Wheatley, Thomas Conneff, Peg Woffington, the Village Blacksmith, Captain Moonlight, Captain Boycott, Dante Alighieri, Christopher Columbus, S. Fursa, S. Brendan, Marshal MacMahon, Charlemagne, Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Mother of the Maccabees, the Last of the Mohicans, the Rose of Castile, the Man for Galway, The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, The Man in the Gap, The Woman Who Didn't, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, John L. Sullivan, Cleopatra, Savourneen Deelish†   (source)
  • This present Paquette received of a learned Grey Friar, who had traced it to its source; he had had it of an old countess, who had received it from a cavalry captain, who owed it to a marchioness, who took it from a page, who had received it from a Jesuit, who when a novice had it in a direct line from one of the companions of Christopher Columbus.†   (source)
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