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    1. The longer the way was by the east, Columbus very justly concluded, the shorter it would be by the west


    2. But the countries which Columbus discovered, either in this or in any of his subsequent voyages, had no resemblance to those which he had gone in quest of


    3. In consequence of this mistake of Columbus, the name of the Indies has stuck to those unfortunate countries ever since; and when it was at last clearly discovered that the new were altogether different from the old Indies, the former were called the West, in contradistinction to the latter, which were called the East Indies


    4. It was of importance to Columbus, however, that the countries which he had discovered, whatever they were, should be represented to the court of Spain as of very great consequence ; and, in what constitutes the real riches of every country, the animal and vegetable productions of the soil, there was at that time nothing which could well justify such a representation of them


    5. Finding nothing, either in the animals or vegetables of the newly discovered countries which could justify a very advantageous representation of them, Columbus turned his view towards their minerals; and in the richness of their productions of this third kingdom, he flattered himself he had found a full compensation for the insignificancy of those of the other two


    6. When Columbus, upon his return from his first voyage, was introduced with a sort of triumphal honours to the sovereigns of Castile and Arragon, the principal productions of the countries which he had discovered were carried in solemn procession before him


    7. In consequence of the representations of Columbus, the council of Castile determined to take possession of the countries of which the inhabitants were plainly incapable of defending themselves


    8. But the hope of finding treasures of gold there was the sole motive which prompted to undertake it; and to give this motive the greater weight, it was proposed by Columbus, that the half of all the gold and silver that should be found there, should belong to the crown


    9. Domingo, and in all the other countries discovered by Columbus, was done completely in six or eight years, and when, in order to find more, it had become necessary to dig for it in the mines, there was no longer any possibility of paying this tax


    10. All the other enterprizes of the Spaniards in the New World, subsequent to those of Columbus, seem to have been prompted by the same motive

    11. She realized in some measure the extravagant hopes of her votaries; and in the discovery and conquest of Mexico and Peru (of which the one happened about thirty, and the other about forty, years after the first expedition of Columbus), she presented them with something not very unlike that profusion of the precious metals which they sought for


    12. founded in 1850, in honor of Christopher Columbus


    13. there is every reason to believe that Columbus would not have felt it necessary to make his voyage to the West in 1492 in search of an ocean route to the Indies?


    14. An army of family and friends that attend the annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Columbus, Ohio


    15. With more than a little irony, Calley was invited as a guest of the Kiwanis Club of Columbus, Georgia, a charity known for its worldwide endeavors for justice and children's welfare


    16. The only thing new that we adults visited for the first time was a section of the San Esteban Monumental complex where it is said that Christopher Columbus stayed


    17. I walked into the rink John where Big Ted from school and Curt Columbus were seemingly just hanging out in the bathroom shooting the shit – pun intended


    18. Bruno Capone had Curt Columbus pinned up against the fence


    19. The thought blipped through my mind that I had probably looked as Curt Columbus had looked when he was pinned up against the fence by the taco stand last night at Suburbanite rink


    20. This was the fifteenth century and Columbus was working for the authors of the Spanish Inquisition

    21. Christopher Columbus discovered the island and named it St


    22. When Christopher Columbus discovered the island, he found some sixty thousand Arawak Indians


    23. It is believed that Christopher Columbus discovered Labadee in 1492, before his vessel fell victim to the reefs and shelves of rocks of the Caribbean


    24. Niquette of the Columbus Dispatch told ABC’s ‘Nightline;’ “ if you talk to the election officials here in Franklin County ;they’ll tell you, the main problem was there just weren’t enough machines overall,


    25. We decided upon Columbus Day which was an EB holiday


    26. I did not try to call our Montville, CT, neighbors, Debbie and Bill in Columbus, about 70 miles west


    27. Friday morning, I got up, drove one hour, exited for Columbus


    28. The one where I was the youngest had the most dine-outs, and made prescription runs weekly to Columbus, NM, and the Pharmacia’s just across the border (these poor devils did not have Part D Medicare, yet)


    29. It seems she had it sitting on the sofa while Michael Columbus was looking over her shoulder


    30. Aye has always enjoyed writing her thoughts down and while living in Columbus,

    31. Aye now lives in Columbus, Georgia with her children


    32.  Guanahaní, the name given by the natives to the island on which Columbuslanded and which he called San Salvador;


    33. navigators who aidedColumbus in the discovery of


    34. In the film “1492: Conquest of Paradise” by Ridley Scott, Christopher Columbus, old and defeated, encounters the Treasurer of Spain which blames him for being a dreamer, an idealist


    35. Then Columbus shows him the cities, the palaces, the great and small works of art and asks him what he sees


    36. “Well”, Columbus concludes, “all this was created by idealists like myself”


    37. I hadn’t realized it was Columbus day


    38. Perhaps like an alternate future of the Native Americans if Columbus hadn’t sailed the ocean blue


    39. Finally he started to formalise his passion and enrolled in Columbus University in Ohio


    40. Columbus used attack dogs against the natives he came across

    41. Shortly after Columbus and Cortes arrived in the so-called


    42. Columbus, Cortes and those ‘commanders’ who followed them


    43. Roger Compton, 36, who committed the murder of a Columbus, Ohio man," and the list went on as Toby heard nothing but meaningless words, waiting for the cue that his father's name would bring


    44. what really happened, and in this case the team does a fantastic job in unraveling why Harry didn’t survive his camping Columbus Day weekend in 2002


    45. COLUMBUS DAY: Annually celebrated on the second Monday


    46. Columbus and Cortes landed on the shores of this hemisphere


    47. Speaking of which, did Christopher Columbus finance his trip to America with the Discover Card?


    48. Now let's say you're part of a larger group, say the Knights of Columbus or 4H and you see your organization mentioned in the news


    49. because most royal advisors believed Columbus was underestimating the distance required to sail west from Europe to Asia


    50. However, while the advisors were correct in their assertion that Columbus’ estimation of time and distance was overly optimistic, they had no idea what, if anything might lie beyond the great ocean for Columbus to discover, and he would find it when his persistence with the Spanish Court eventually paid off














































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