Articles about 'Columbus Day'
October 7th, 2008
In my last blog post, I mentioned how Columbus’ voyage is not always seen in a positive light. Earlier in the week, I had posted two poems that were positive towards Columbus (one called In 1492, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue and the other, a Spanish poem called To Christopher Columbus). Here’s one...
October 7th, 2008
In the United States Columbus Day is celebrated this month on the second Monday of October . It commemorates the landing of Columbus in the Bahamas on October 12th, 1492. It was the first lasting contact between the Europeans and the indigenous people of the American continents. (It wasn’t the first contact...
October 4th, 2008
Here’s a Columbus Day poem in Spanish by Elena Gloria Ferral, followed by an English translation…
A Cristobal Colón
(Spanish)
Del puerto de Palos
partió Colón,
con tres carabelas
y un gran corazón.
Soñaba con tierras
lejanas tal vez,
adonde llevarles
su amor y su fe.
Un doce de octubre
a ellas llegó
y en nombre de España
tomó posesión.
To Christopher Columbus
(English Translation)
From Palos harbor
Columbus left
with three caravels
and a...
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October 3rd, 2008
Columbus Day is coming up in the United States on October 13th. It celebrates when Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas on October 12th, 1492.
Here is the most popular Columbus Day poem in the US. It’s used to help teach the history of Columbus.
IN 1492
In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the...
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