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Was Christopher Columbus a Hero or Villain?
Biography via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWas Christopher Columbus a Hero or Villain?Getty Images Whether you call it Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, one thing is for sure—the holiday...
Explorer Christopher Columbus and His Namesake Holiday Are More Polarizing Than Ever
Biography via Yahoo News· 9 months agoItalian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the “New World” of the Americas on a 1492...
Take a ride or just a tour in Pensacola of the famous Tall Ships that travel the globe
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Tall Ships Pensacola Festival returns to Pensacola April 27-30 at Plaza de Luna, and will serve...
10 Famous Explorers Whose Discoveries Connected the World
Biography via Yahoo News· 10 months ago10 Famous Explorers Who Changed the WorldGetty Images When European explorers first began sailing...
The Roots of Christian Nationalism Go Back Further Than You Think
Time via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA painting entitled, “The Landing of Columbus,” by Albert Bobbett (1877) of Christopher Columbus...
Why Americans Simply Love to Forge Viking Artifacts
Slate via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThere are a variety of clues which may suggest that Vikings penetrated further south and west into North America than (as has been confirmed)...
The Nao Trinidad is on its way to St. Augustine
The St. Augustine Record via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSt. Augustine’s Municipal Marina welcomes the Nao Trinidad (Trinidad), a full-size replica of the tall ship Magellan-Elcan - the first ship to...
From Thanksgiving to Labor Day, these 9 holidays have surprisingly dark origins
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOur popular understanding of the history of Thanksgiving is flawed.Barney Burstein/Corbis/VCG via...
17 Nightmare-Inducing Stories About Oceans, Lakes, And More Straight From Wikipedia
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 5 months agoVajirawich Wongpuvarak / Getty Images/iStockphoto If you're one of the millions who suffer from...
Letters to the editor: Need fossil fuels for now; honor Columbus for wrong reasons
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 8 months agoStop bashing oil companies It gets old hearing people bash the oil companies. The fact remains now and the foreseeable future that our society needs fossil fuels. In fact, oil haters need fossil ...