Happy Columbus Day!

[BrackishTortoise]

 

[stgislander]

So that's why the Post Office is closed today.

 

[Sneakers]

I thought it was now Indigenous Peoples' Day ?

I'm so

 

[PJay]

 

[spr1975wshs]

As for Europeans, Leif Ericsson was here 1st.

There are some indications men working for Columbus traveled to Iceland to study the old Norse records.

Heck, Basques were fishing the Grand Banks before Columbus, too.
He had a Basque pilot on his ship.

This post from a man who is Italian on his mom's side and grew up with the Cult of Columbus.

 

[LightRoasted]

If I may ...

Shouldn't it be called Amerigo Vespucci day instead? Since, after all, the Continent is named after him.

 

[stgislander]

Columbus was born in the little town of Hyen, Norway. The locals told me so.

 

[BernieP]

Columbus, regardless of what he may or may not have achieved was the equivalent of a used car salesman, or a con man.
He got rich people to fund him on a trip with pure bull crap and no payback

 

[Louise]

Whatever views Columbus had, and whatever political stuff was going on in his time, doesn’t matter. He was a brave man to make the voyage when people thought the World was flat. Good for him! October 12 is my mother’s birthday, and she gave birth to one of my bro’s on the same day. Happy birthday and discovery day. Rip, mommy who died in 2007.