* In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in The Bahamas.

* In 1984, five Argentines sail in a 10-meter-long raft made from tree trunks named Atlantis from Canary Islands and after 52 days journey arrived to Venezuela in an attempt to prove travelers from Africa may have crossed the Atlantic before Christopher Columbus.

* 1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.

* 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.

* 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

* 1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.

Christopher Columbus, as a hero and symbol, is an important figure in the pantheon of American myth.

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.

Most of the kinds commonly eaten fresh or dried, those of the genus Phaseolus, come originally from the Americas, being first seen by a European when Christopher Columbus, during his exploration, of what may have been the Bahamas, found them growing in fields.

Christopher Columbus sighted the Cayman Islands on May 10, 1503 and named them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles seen swimming in the surrounding waters.

The colonial period began when Christopher Columbus reached the eastern coast of Costa Rica on his fourth voyage in 1502.

The known history of Cuba predates Christopher Columbus ' landing on the island during his first voyage of discovery on 28 October 1492.

Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the Americas, sailed south from what is now the Bahamas to explore the northeast coast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola.

Christopher Columbus ( Italian: Cristoforo Colombo ; Spanish: Cristóbal Colón ; before 31 October 145120 May 1506 ) was an explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy.

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Visiting faculty have included Giorgio Agamben, Chantal Akerman, Pierre Alféri, Pierre Aubenque, Alain Badiou, Lewis Baltz, Julian Barnes, Jean Baudrillard, Yve-Alain Bois, Catherine Breillat, Victor Burgin, Judith Butler, Sophie Calle, Hélène Cixous, Diane Davis, Manuel DeLanda, Claire Denis, Jacques Derrida, Tracey Emin, Bracha Ettinger, Christopher Fynsk, Antony Gormley, Peter Greenaway, Durs Grünbein, Werner Hamacher, Barbara Hammer, Donna Haraway, Michael Hardt, Martin Hielscher, Michel Houellebecq, Shelley Jackson, Mitchell Joachim, Friedrich Kittler, Claude Lanzmann, Christian Marclay, Colum McCann, Carl Mitcham, Jean-Luc Nancy, Klaus Ottmann, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Cornelia Parker, Laurence A. Rickels, Avital Ronell, Paul D. Miller a. k. a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Wolfgang Schirmacher, Volker Schlöndorff, Michael Schmidt, Hendrik Speck, Bruce Sterling, Allucquére Sandy Stone, Elia Suleiman, Friedrich Ulfers, Gregory Ulmer, Agnès Varda, Paul Virilio, Victor J. Vitanza, Hubertus von Amelunxen, Margarethe von Trotta, John Waters, Samuel Weber, Caveh Zahedi, Krzysztof Zanussi, Siegfried Zielinski, Slavoj Žižek and Jan Zwicky.

The faculty of this university discussed the feasibility of Christopher Columbus's project and the effects his claims brought.

Christopher Ocker Ph. D Professor of History at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and affiliated faculty at the History Department of the University of California at Berkeley

Former and current CCA faculty includes designers Yves Behar, Brenda Laurel, Nathan Shedroff, Christopher Simmons, Michael Vanderbyl, and Martin Venezky ; architects Thom Faulders, Ila Berman, Katherine Lambert, and Craig Scott ; artists Kim Anno, David Heintz, Raymond Saunders, Claudia Bernardi, Jordan Kantor, Kota Ezawa, Christian Jankowski, Tim Lee, Mario Ybarra Jr., Larry Sultan, Jim Goldberg, Brian Conley, Ken Lum, and Lia Cook ; goldsmith Alan Revere, writers: Tom Barbash, M. Celeste Connor, Joseph Lease, Aimee Phan, Lisa Robertson, Mitchell Schwarzer, Dodie Bellamy, and Kevin Killian ; curators Raimundas Malasauskas, Renny Pritikin, and Jens Hoffmann ; and filmmaker Rob Epstein.

* Virginia Tech's Christopher Hall has built a spacecraft simulator as well: faculty page

The work consists of four ‘ books ’, the first addressed to the Queen, the second to Leicester, the third to Lord Burghley, and the fourth to Oxford, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Leicester's nephew Philip Sidney, with whom he would famously quarrel.

In all of his film appearances, which consists of the prequel films and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, he is played by Christopher Lee.

The Folksmen trio consists of Mark Shubb ( Harry Shearer ), Alan Barrows ( Christopher Guest ), and Jerry Palter ( Michael McKean ).

The college consists of several distinct buildings, including the main Hild building, which is the administrative hub of the college containing the main college library, offices, computer room, common rooms and a large number of student rooms ; other larger accommodation blocks, such as Thorp, Christopher, Bede ; and several smaller houses such as Hild Gym, Bede Gym, Charles Stranks, Gables, Manor House, Manor Lodge, Belvedere and Grove House.

The band consists of Edward Droste ( vocals, keyboards, omnichord ), Daniel Rossen ( vocals, guitar, banjo, keyboards ), Chris Taylor ( bass, backing vocals, various instruments, producer ) and Christopher Bear ( drums, backing vocals ).

Despite his by now well established superstardom, Bowie, in the words of biographer Christopher Sandford, " for all his record sales ( over a million copies of Ziggy Stardust alone ), existed essentially on loose change.

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

* 904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.

This is a collection of fifteen selected non-fiction entries that had been published in Analog magazine over the years ; it includes five articles authored or co-authored by Zubrin, including " The Hypersonic Skyhook ", " Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet " ( co-authored with David A. Baker ), " Colonizing the Outer Solar System ", " Terraforming Mars " ( co-authored with Christopher McKay ), and " The Magnetic Sail ".

< imagemap > File: 2nd millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: In 1492, Christopher Columbus ; The American Revolution ; The French Revolution ; The Atomic Bomb from World War II ; An alternate source of light, the Light Bulb ; For the first time, a human being sets foot on the moon in 1969 during the Apollo 11 moon mission ; Aeroplanes become the most-used way of transport though the skies ; Napoleon Bonaparte, in the early 19th century, affects France and Europe on subjects of expansionism and modernization ; Alexander Graham Bell's telephone ; In 1348, the Black Death kills over 100 million people worldwide, and over half of Europe, in two years.

However, after a reign of a little over two months, Leo was captured by Christopher, the Cardinal-priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso, and thrown into prison.

In 1890, a dispute over smuggling led to further violence, and a Long Look resident, Christopher Flemming, emerged as a local hero simply for standing up to authority.

Terrence Malick's The New World ( 2005 ) and Christopher Nolan's latest three movies, The Dark Knight ( featured 28 minutes of IMAX footage ), Inception, and The Dark Knight Rises ( over an hour in IMAX ).

* Marlowe ( MR ) ( 74 mixed pupils, day, 1936 ) is named after the poet and dramatist Christopher Marlowe ( King's Scholar, 1580 ) and looks out over the Green Court.

Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus, over nearly four centuries the Spanish Empire would expand across: most of present day Central America, the Caribbean islands, and Mexico ; much of the rest of North America including the Southwestern, Southern coastal, and California Pacific Coast regions of the United States ; and though inactive, with claimed territory in present day British Columbia Canada ; and U. S. states of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon ; and the western half of South America.

This was done on the proposal and the draught of Christopher Galloway from England, who was summoned to design the new tower's clock ( clock watch it there with the 1585 ) and suggested the arrangement of the tent roof over the clock.

On this occasion Christopher received precedence in rank over his brother-in-law Constantine VII, something which compounded the latter's resentment towards the Lekapenoi, the Bulgarians, and imperial marriages to outsiders ( as documented in his composition De Administrando Imperio ).

On the death of Christopher, by far his most competent son, in 931, Romanos did not advance his younger sons in precedence over Constantine VII.

* In The Sopranos episode, " Big Girls Don't Cry ", Christopher Moltisanti's acting instructor assigns Chris and several classmates — whom she terms " rebels without causes "— to enact the scene wherein Plato dies and Jim cries over his friend's body.

His son Christopher appeared in Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979 and in the J. J. Abrams " reboot ", Star Trek ( with Simon Pegg taking over the role as Montgomery Scott ).

One of the poems, Vespers – which describes young Christoper Robin saying his evening prayers – was said by Christopher Milne as " the one work that has brought me over the years more toe-curling, fist-clenching, lip-biting embarrassment than any other ".

In 1840, White County became a destination for people from all over the country when Christopher Haufmann erected a large hotel on Bon Air Mountain, part of the Cumberland Plateau.

Under the leadership of Chief of Police Christopher Boyd, the newly formed department took over law enforcement responsibility from the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department on June 26, 2006.

Missouri Route 19 crosses the Missouri over the newly opened Senator Christopher S. Bond Bridge.

The English had gambled that the crews of the many new Dutch ships of the line would not have been fully trained yet but were deceived in their hopes: they lost ten ships, with slightly over 1, 000 men killed including two Vice-Admirals, Sir Christopher Myngs and Sir William Berkeley, while about 2000 English were taken prisoner.

In the late 80s, predatory investors (" Adventurers ") converged on the United Company, while management was taken over by the lawyer Christopher Rich.

The Elvish form Nírnaeth Arnoediad ( pronounced ; in this case the digraph oe denotes a rounded variant of the sound, more or less like German ' ö ') comes from Sindarin, one of the languages invented by Tolkien, and translates to Tears Uncountable: nîn means ' tear ( s )', in compound nírnaeth ' tears of woe '; prefix ar-bears the sense of ' beyond ' and the root nod-means ' count ', with o umlauted to œ by the following i. J. R. R. Tolkien often omitted the accent over the first vowel ( due to haste or neglect ), and this spelling was introduced into the published Silmarillion by Christopher Tolkien ; in editorial text within later writings, as The War of the Jewels, he used the accented form.

Interviews and articles written by various writers, most notably Tom DeFalco and Peter David, artist Ron Frenz and editor James Owsley ( now known as Christopher Priest ) are all somewhat at odds with one another over many details about the course of events and what was agreed.

He was reelected in 1956 with 55 percent of the vote over Democrat Thomas J. Dodd ( later U. S. Senator from Connecticut and father of the recent U. S. Senator from Connecticut, Christopher J. Dodd ), and decided not to run for another term in 1962.