[Alas Babylon!]

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Christopher Columbus, letter to Queen Isabella:

I have determined to write you this letter to inform you of everything that has been done and discovered in this voyage of mine.

On the thirty-third day after leaving Cadiz I came into the Indian Sea, where I discovered many islands inhabited by numerous people. I took possession of all of them for our most fortunate King by making public proclamation and unfurling his standard, no one making any resistance. The island called Juana, as well as the others in its neighborhood, is exceedingly fertile. It has numerous harbors on all sides, very safe and wide, above comparison with any I have ever seen. Through it flow many very broad and health-giving rivers; and there are in it numerous very lofty mountains. All these island are very beautiful, and of quite different shapes; easy to be traversed, and full of the greatest variety of trees reaching to the stars. . . .

In the island, which I have said before was called Hispana, there are very lofty and beautiful mountains, great farms, groves and fields, most fertile both for cultivation and for pasturage, and well adapted for constructing buildings. The convenience of the harbors in this island, and the excellence of the rivers, in volume and salubrity, surpass human belief, unless on should see them. In it the trees, pasture-lands and fruits different much from those of Juana. Besides, this Hispana abounds in various kinds of species, gold and metals. The inhabitants . . . are all, as I said before, unprovided with any sort of iron, and they are destitute of arms, which are entirely unknown to them, and for which they are not adapted; not on account of any bodily deformity, for they are well made, but because they are timid and full of terror. . . . But when they see that they are safe, and all fear is banished, they are very guileless and honest, and very liberal of all they have. No one refuses the asker anything that he possesses; on the contrary they themselves invite us to ask for it. They manifest the greatest affection towards all of us, exchanging valuable things for trifles, content with the very least thing or nothing at all. . . . I gave them many beautiful and pleasing things, which I had brought with me, for no return whatever, in order to win their affection, and that they might become Christians and inclined to love our King and Queen and Princes and all the people of Spain; and that they might be eager to search for and gather and give to us what they abound in and we greatly need.

Happy Columbus Day!
America’s salute to discovery!

[Alas Babylon!]

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[CincyRichieRich]

Wait, no...didn’t he bring diseases purposed to kill native Americans, and didn’t he bring African slaves with him? /sarc

[rodguy911]

wow so much there thanks.

[shalom aleichem]

Thanks for the thread A.B. I have never understood the hat worn by Senor Columbus (or was it Colon?).

Great game between Florida and LSU (Playing with a Buckeye transfer QB and Georgia lost because they sent QB Justin Fields to the Buckeyes. So it goes.)

[hillarynot]

I have spent many hours researching the history of our local Knights of Columbus Council which was founded in May 1899, and discovered the following surrounding the founding of the fraternal order a few years prior in Connecticut

Catholics in the late 1800’s were regularly excluded from labor unions, fraternal organizations, and other groups that provided social services. The Knights of Columbus was founded to provide these services to Catholics particularly widows and orphaned children.

They took the name “Knights of Columbus” as a rebuke to these organizational leaders who widely considered Christopher Columbus a hero. That was hypocritical at best because Columbus was a Catholic from Spain, yet Catholic immigrants were marginalized and discriminated against. The intent was to prove Catholics were not only productive members of American society, but also instrumental in it’s foundation.

[Deplorable American1776]

Happy Columbus Day, all... I'm not sure who discovered America, but it could have been the Irish, Welsh, Vikings, Egyptians, Chinese or someone else.

That said, Columbus is still a hero...

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