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Christopher Columbus named the island Santa María de Guadalupe in 1493 after the Virgin Mary, venerated in the Spanish town of Guadalupe, in Extremadura.
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* 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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Christopher and named
Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.
Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.
The last Lord of Abensberg, Nicholas, supposedly named after his godfather, Nicholas of Kues, a Catholic cardinal, was murdered in 1485 by Christopher, a Duke of Bavaria-Munich.
After the death of her father, she travels to America and is abducted by Indians during the French-Indian Wars and eventually marries one of her captors, a French officer named Philippe de Saint-Christophe ( or Christopher ).
Fremont named the river flowing through the valley Carson River in honor of Christopher " Kit " Carson, the mountain man and scout he had hired for his expedition.
Christopher Columbus named the island after the day of the week on which he spotted it-a Sunday (' Doménica ' in Italian )-which fell on 3 November 1493 on his second voyage.
A. Milne, after whom the character Christopher Robin in the Winnie-the-Pooh books was named, used to own the Harbour Bookshop.
In 1498 French Guiana was first visited by Europeans when Christopher Columbus sailed to the region on his third voyage and named it the " Land of pariahs ".
It was founded by the Venerable Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, and named in honor of Christopher Columbus.
A year later Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage, sailing south and eastward from upper Central America, explored Bocas del Toro, Veragua, the Chagres River and Porto Belo ( Beautiful Port ) which he named.
However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish explorers led Saint Kitts to be named San Cristobal ( Saint Christopher ), a name originally applied to Saba 20 miles north.
The islands were named by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage in 1493 for Saint Ursula and her virgin followers.
Together the couple adopted a son whom they named Christopher, but his birth mother reclaimed the child.
They adopted another boy, whom they named Phillip Terry, Jr. After the marriage ended in 1946, Crawford changed the child's name to Christopher Crawford.
Together they had twins, Johnny Stacy and Kristopher Steven, born 30 November 1995, and named after family friends Johnny Cash and Christopher Reeve.
* 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.
Their son Christopher was born in 1632 then, two years later, another daughter named Elizabeth was born.
A previous son of Dr. Wren, also named Christopher, was born on 22 November 1631 and died the same day.
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