[Teófilo]

Blunders. Typos. Mine.

[miss marmelstein]

We’re celebrating it with an Italian dinner tonight. I made Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce, my husband’s providing the sweet Italian sausage. Add pasta and Happy Columbus Day!

[defconw]

Thanks for posting this.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The NEW WORLD was going to be discovered at that time. If not by Columbus then by Pedro Álvares Cabral a few years later.

It was inevitable.

[Salvation]

BTTT for later.

[MeshugeMikey]

Enjoy a great Columbas Day!

[traderrob6]

Columbus was a true maritime visionary but lets be honest, Columbus Day to a large degree was a political move to placate the Italian/American community.

[cotton1706]

To those who claim that Columbus did not discover America, they should note that at some point in history, the whole civilized world suddenly realized that there were two continents to the west. The Americas were thus dis-covered, that is un-covered.

Before Columbus, the existence of the Americas was known to few, after him, they were known to all.

Whether or not there were people already here, or that the Norsemen were aware that the Americas existed, Columbus deserves the credit for disseminating that information to the civilized world.

[Mike Darancette]

Leif Erikson don’t get no holiday.

[Salvation]

Excellent links in your article. Thanks.

[Teófilo]

PING!

[defconw]

I am still making my way through the readings. Darn work expected me to work yesterday! The nerve!

But anyway, I found something quite remarkable. I mean we all know this, but in this time I find it particularly important to remember that Catholic Spain defeated the Muslims. It may have taken 700 years of struggle, but they did it. I just hope we are made of similar stuff. We may not make it ourselves, but the Church will go on.

[publius911]

Do you have an alternate with none of the religious harangue and more simple ways to celebrate the man, his achievement an leave the other stuff for Sunday Christian services?

Just an simple alternative to the absurd "indigenous People's" Day?

Wait.
We already have that.

Never mind.
I'm celebrating on Oct 12