Video Of The Week - It's Columbus Day!
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On August 3rd, 1492 an Italian explorer by the name of Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain to seek out a new route to India. On October 12th, 1492, after sailing across the Atlantic Ocean for 10 weeks, a crew member sighted land and the adventurer thought he had arrived . . . . . To India.
Of course, as we all know it was not the Asian subcontinent, but a small island in the Bahamas that Columbus named San Salvador. Since then, the explorer's arrival is celebrated by many countries in the Americas and also Spain.
In the USA it is called Columbus or Discoverer's day and is observed on the second Monday of October. Latin Americans call it Dia De La Raza, while the Spanish call it Dia De La Hispanidad. Both, celebrate it on October 12th, the actual day the Spaniard reached the mainland of what he thought was India. Whether you are celebrating it today or four days from now, have a great holiday.
Happy Columbus Day!
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- 1 direction !!!about 12 yearsLove the video and love 1 d
- Personabout 12 yearsLets celebrate columbus day by walking into someone's home and claiming it as ours. (That's basically what he did to the native Americans)
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- Wilberabout 12 yearsI liked it
kylie4thabout 12 yearscool outfits and video i like videos that go like that how the motion is i like how it made it fun it may not to you but it is to me at least its better and funner learning
emilythebeastabout 12 yearsi think this video is very interesting and i learned alot from it!!! :))) Collumbus is interesting and he learned alot that he then told us about... without his knowledge we would have many, many disadvantages that we luckilly dont thanks to him!!! :)))- MMSMusaMabout 12 yearsI like the story bout i don't like Christopher Columbus because he killed people for there money and people had there land token by Christopher Columbus and had them slaves that worked for him so Christopher Columbus had done some thing right but most of the thing he did where wrong like for example kill slaves
- hayley lambethabout 12 yearsthat was a very nice article
- weird girl about 12 yearscool :)