columbus

     

Columbus is an Anglicize version of the Italian surname Colombo.

Trivia about columbus

  • The first gorilla born in captivity was Colo, who debuted in 1956 in this Ohio capital
  • The first gorilla born in captivity was born in this Ohio city's zoo in 1956
  • Ending in 1504, his fourth voyage to the New World took him to Panama
  • Citrus fruits including limes were introduced to the West Indies by this man on his second voyage
  • He stopped at Gomera in the Canaries for nearly a month, then headed for the New World on Sept. 6, 1492
  • On Oct. 28, 1492 this captain was in the Bay of Bariay off Cuba & not near the Asian mainland
  • Juan de la Costa was the master of the flagship on his 1492 expedition to the New World
  • It's Ohio's largest city, as well as the capital
  • In 1493, during his second voyage to the New World, he built a trading post called Isabela on Hispaniola
  • State legislator general Joseph Foose suggested that Ohio's capital be named this
  • The ancestors of the Texas longhorn were brought to the Americas in 1493 by this explorer
  • Funded by subscriptions to NYC's Il Progresso newspaper & unveiled in 1892, his memorial depicts his 3 ships
  • There she is, again & again--Mary Campbell, from this capital of Ohio, won in 1922 & '23 & was 1st runner-up in '24
  • In 1816 this city replaced Chillicothe as capital of Ohio
  • In 1502, on his fourth voyage, he landed at what is now Trujillo, Honduras
  • This Ohio city is home to Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery
  • In 1492 this man landed on the island of San Salvador & came in contact with Native Americans called Arawaks
  • Prime aged beef is the specialty of Mitchell's Steakhouse, just steps from the Capitol in this Ohio city
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  • On his 3 15th century voyages to the New World, his ships stopped off at the Canary Islands for supplies
  • On Oct. 12, 1492 this captain thought he was on an island near Japan --not exactly
  • In 1484 he tried to get King John II of Portugal to finance his transoceanic trip
  • Government House in Nassau has a statue of this man believed to have first made landfall in the Bahamas
  • After moving to Spain in 1485 he used Colon, the Spanish version of his name
  • A 1914 $5 Federal Reserve note depicted the pilgrims & this explorer sighting land on the reverse side
  • Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in this Mississippi town named for America's discoverer
  • The World Expo of 1893 was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of one of this man's voyages
  • On August 5, 1498 he landed on Venezuela's Paria Peninsula, becoming the first European to reach South America
  • Ogden Nash wrote that this explorer "discovered America and they put him in jail for it"
  • His quincentenary was celebrated with a coin in 1992
  • He's the explorer who used the flag seen here in honor of his royal patrons
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew leans over a pool filled with denizens of the not-so-deep.) I'm at the 190,000 gallon manatee exhibit at the zoo of this city, now Ohio's most populous
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  • In 1812 the state legislature chose this name for its capital city, though many wanted to name it Ohio City
  • You'll discover this city is home to the main campus of the Ohio State University
  • After returning to the U.S., Henry did 3 years in prison in this Ohio city named for an explorer
  • Though the Ohio stamp featured Cleveland, its first day cover was released in this city
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