My parents worked for the federal Gov't, and it was the one day, when I would walk home from school, and they were at the house.
Most often, my father would be prepping the house for winter (caulking windows, etc) and mom would be cooking raisin cake.
I have very few distinct memories of coming home from elementary school, but because of this holiday, I do have memories.
Irrespective of Columbus I love how the proponents of this crap try to pretend that so called ‘indigenous people’ were really happy-go-lucky glorified hippies of the day just love, peace and happiness! Which of course is a big lie and also shows the true anti-West, anti-white and anti-Christian agenda.
Another “EVIL” thing Columbus managed to do is actually connected to our day.
Christopher Columbus had the unmitigated nerve to CHALLENGE “SETTLED SCIENCE” when he sailed off toward the “Edge of the FLAT EARTH”. Only He and a couple of others were “foolish” enough to challenge what the great(?) minds of the day “KNEW for a FACT.”
The Nina, the Pina and the Santa Maria were named after women and Christopher used these small and by today’s safety standards dangerous craft across the Atlantic’s uncharted waters.
He discovers for all intents and purposes “America” from the European Historical perspective.
Europe’s long established laws applied to the lands as countries guided by the Dutch pilots - The Netherlands, England, France, and Spain laid claim to different parts of North America; in the Central and South American lands it was the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and English that populated these lands with Slaves and other legal people categories....
Myth: Columbus was sailing to prove the world was round.
Everyone in Columbus’s time knew the earth was a sphere. This fact was known since antiquity (among the ancient Greeks, for example). Scholars disagreed about its size. Based on the known world, Columbus underestimated it by one fourth.
In the late nineteenth century, enemies of Christianity spread the lie that medieval men believed in a flat earth. They claimed that because people in Columbus’s time were religious, they were therefore crude and ignorant. These enemies wanted to discredit the Church by portraying it as the enemy of science. But Christopher Columbus, a deeply religious man, would be the first to disagree.