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Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.

Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.

P. J. O'Rourke
Vacation, Columbus, Spain

When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.

Mark Richards
Play, Guy, Columbus

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

James W. Loewen
White, Columbus, Cherish
James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.83, The New Press

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

James W. Loewen
Firsts, Columbus, Slave

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

Henry David Thoreau
America, World, Columbus
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.8, 谷月社

Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?

Evgeni Kostitsyn
America, Firsts, Columbus

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

Chauncey Depew
Columbus, Spirit
Chauncey Mitchell Depew, John Denison Champlin (1910). “Orations and memorial addresses”

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan
Science, Usual, Columbus

If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.

Barack Obama
Believe, Earth, Columbus

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