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Columbus: Quite a Character! Our Paesani - Italiansrus.com
A crisp fall breeze is upon us and the kids are back in school, which means I, an Italian American reporter, have Columbus Day on the brain. It's like Christmas or the Super Bowl for Italian America. There are star-studded parades, events, and an entire month devoted to Italian American heritage all because of the mythic explorer Christopher Columbus, better known to Italians as Cristofero Colombo.
1492: An Ongoing Voyage
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Christopher Columbus
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Columbus and the Age of Discovery
This contains over 1100 text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, speeches, official calendars and other sources relating to various encounter themes.
Columbus Monuments Pages
This Web site lists all of the monuments erected throughout the world that have been dedicated to Columbus.
Columbus Mythbusters
Joseph M. Laufer sets the record straight by listing each myth and following it with the actual facts.
Cristoforo Colombo Italiansrus.com
Learn more about the life of Christopher Columbus by reading this 12 chapter e-text version written by Giancarlo v. Nacher Malvaioli. This is an Italian translation of his book, which was initially written in Spanish.
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