Columbus Day is a federal holiday commemorating Italian explorer Christopher Columbus’ voyage and landing in the New World on Oct. 12, 1492. Columbus was commissioned by King Ferdinand and Queen ...

That’s what I was taught in grade school. As children, we honored him by repeating the slogan, “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” We could recite the names of his fleet of ships […] ...

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, bringing to the New World a bounty of wonder: coffee, horses, turnips, grapes, wine. But Columbus and his fellow explorers, in addition to ...

On Aug. 3, 1492, Columbus, flying under the Spanish flag, set out from Palos de la Frontera , Spain with three ships on what arguably may be the most famous sea crossing ever.

"In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue ..." was the sentence learned by school children to get them interested in the discovery of America. Today marks the 525th anniversary of that voyage. Born ...

Columbus also did not set out to discover that Earth was round, according to historians. By 1492, it was already known the Earth wasn’t flat thanks to a Greek mathematician who had Aristotle’s ...

On Oct. 28, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on his first voyage to the New World. In 1636 Harvard College was founded in Cambridge, Mass. In 1776 the Battle of White Plains was fought ...

Happy Columbus Day, everybody. I'm going to celebrate by going into my friend's house, telling him I live there now, then giving him a terminal disease. And then I'm going to try to sell all of my ...

Question: What Boston institution has the phone #617-266-1492 and why? - The answer below after a review of a quiet day of holiday trading. Market Musings Via CNBC Earnings Expert Juan Aruego ...

Local News This day in 1492, Columbus didn’t have to pay Seattle parking — but you do Originally published October 11, 2010 at 1:06 pm Updated October 11, 2010 at 3:16 pm ...

In 1492, Columbus sailed to the New World in ships like these Updated: Sep. 25, 2010, 11:00 a.m. | Published: Sep. 25, 2010, 10:00 a.m.