John Di Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus Day Celebration Committee, it was announced yesterday.

Columbus named this island as Savona after the Italian city of the same name but the use during years has eliminated the letter v.

The dish called cassoulet has its roots in the New World discovery of haricot beans, which are central to the dish's creation, but had not existed outside of the New World until its exploration by Christopher Columbus.

The misconception that educated Europeans at the time of Columbus believed in a flat Earth, and that his voyages refuted that belief, has been referred to as the " Myth of the Flat Earth ".

Although most of Jamaica's native vegetation has been stripped in order to make room for cultivation, some areas have been left virtually undisturbed since the time of Columbus.

This has led to great speculation, with historical evidence, that it is possible that Malian sailors may have reached the coast of Pre-Columbian America under the rule of Abubakari II, nearly two hundred years before Christopher Columbus and that black traders may have been in the Americas before Columbus.

Archaeology has given support to the long-held theory that old Norse sagas show Vikings reached North America approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of Christopher Columbus.

* October 12 – Christopher Columbus ' expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on Guanahani, but he believes he has reached the East Indies.

The university has an exchange program with The Catholic University of America and its Columbus School of Law.

Colo has resided at the Columbus Zoo longer than any other animal in the zoo's collection.

Pratt & Whitney is headquartered in East Hartford, Connecticut and also has plants in Columbus, Georgia ; Middletown, Connecticut ; Dallas, Texas ;

Castries has landmarks, such as the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Derek Walcott Square ( renamed from Columbus Square to honor the island's Nobel Prize-winning poet, Derek Walcott ), the City Library, the Government House, and Fort Charlotte, at the top of Morne Fortune ( an 845-foot hill ).

Since completion, the Columbus Lighthouse, which supposedly houses Columbus ' remains, has been a minor tourist attraction.

The Short North in downtown Columbus, Ohio is primarily known as an art district, but has a strong gay community and a high concentration of gay-oriented clubs and bars.

Since 1990, she has appeared in films such as Carry On Columbus, Jude and Faeries, as the voice of Mrs. Combs.

Franklin County, particularly Columbus, has been a centerpiece for presidential and congressional politics, most notably the 2000 presidential election, the 2004 presidential election, and the 2006 midterm elections.

Franklin County is home to the largest university in the United States, The Ohio State University, which as of fall 2011 has an enrollment of 56, 867 students on its main Columbus campus.

Its county seat and only city is Columbus, with which it has been a consolidated city-county since the beginning of 1971.

While the native Italian American population has dropped rapidly since the 1980s, the neighborhood still retains an Italian character with many Italian restaurants, cafes, and bakeries that line Columbus Avenue and Washington Square.

Broadway east of Columbus Avenue still serves as the city's main red-light and nightclub district as it has many strip clubs, as well as bars, nightclubs, jazz clubs, and the like.

The San Francisco Art Institute is located in the Northern end of North Beach, on Russian Hill, while the Academy of Art University has several buildings in the area, including one along Columbus Avenue and one across the street from Pier 39.

A historic marker has been erected in Columbus marking the battle by Wilson's troops as the " Last Land Battle in the War Between the States.

A 16-year-old Portland businessman and his Junior Achievement company, have been judged the `` Company of the Year '' in national competition completed this week at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

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.

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas ( having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century ), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America, inaugurating a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries.

Columbus is credited with discovering the pineapple on the island of Guadeloupe in 1493, although the fruit had long been grown in South America.

In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ( something explorers had been attempting since the days of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson ), with six others in a 45-ton fishing vessel, Gjøa.

The European discovery and naming of Anguilla is often credited to French explorer Pierre Laudonnaire who visited the island in 1565, though according to some it had been sighted and named by Columbus in 1493.

Since that time, there have been 12 gorilla offspring in the Columbus Zoo surrogacy program.

There is also a house where Christopher Columbus is said to have been born.

The Treaty of Tordesillas was intended to resolve the dispute that had been created following the return of Christopher Columbus.

Christopher Columbus reported seeing mermaids while exploring the Caribbean, and sightings have been reported in the 20th and 21st centuries in Canada, Israel, and Zimbabwe.

Long before Christopher Columbus spotted this island during his third voyage in 1498, it had been called Hairouna by the Caribs.

Some researchers believe the Chumash may have been visited by Polynesians between AD 400 and 800, nearly 1, 000 years before Christopher Columbus reached The Americas.

The white militia was led by Christopher Columbus Nash, a Confederate officer who had been a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island in Ohio.

Since then ramp-meters have been systematically deployed in many urban areas including Los Angeles ; San Diego ; Sacramento ; the San Francisco Bay Area ; Fresno ; Seattle ; Denver ; Phoenix ; Las Vegas ; Salt Lake City ; Portland ; Minneapolis-St. Paul ; Milwaukee ; Columbus ; Cincinnati ; Houston ; Atlanta ; Miami ; Washington, DC ( only along Interstate 395 and Interstate 66 in Arlington County, Virginia ); Kansas City, Missouri ; and along the Queen Elizabeth Way in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Early in the 20th century, Columbus also was home to a number of pioneering car manufacturers, including Reeves, which produced the unusual four-axle Octoauto and the twin rear axle Sextoauto, both around 1911.

Thurman died at home in Columbus and is buried at Green Lawn Cemetery.

The Williams family home in Columbus, Mississippi, was recently renovated and reopened.

McCabe of Delaware, the couple honeymooned at the home of the groom ’ s sister and brother-in-law in Columbus, Ohio.

The Blue Jackets play their home games at Nationwide Arena in downtown Columbus, which opened in 2000.

Nationwide Arena, home of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Lowndes County is home of Mississippi University for Women located in Columbus. Lowndes County is within the service area of the East Mississippi Community College system.

Columbus is home to 65 public schools, all operated by the Muscogee County School District.

Due to its past legacy as the Barbary Coast, Broadway east of Columbus, grew to be the home of the city's red light district and striptease clubs.

The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a population of 140, 247, along with the Columbus, GA-AL MSA and Tuskegee, Alabama, comprises the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA, a region home to 456, 564 residents.

The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a population of 135, 833 which, along with the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area and Macon County, Alabama, comprises the greater Greater Columbus, Georgia, a region home to approximately 500, 000 residents.

* Downtown, also called " Uptown ", is the city's central business district, and home to many historic districts, homes, and churches such as the Columbus Historic Riverfront Industrial District, the Mott House, and the Church of the Holy Family.

MidTown is also home to the majority of bars and nightclubs in the Columbus area.

* North Columbus is a diverse suburban area of the city that is home to established neighborhoods and newly built subdivisions.

It is also home to Columbus Park Crossing, a major outdoor strip mall.

Columbus is also home to three Kingdom Halls for Jehovah's Witnesses, along with three mosques and two synagogues.

Director of the first and second Harry Potter movies Chris Columbus also kept a home in River Forest due to his wife's family ties, and Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano once lived in River Forest.

Thorn House ( CE-1298 ): Located on Conestoga Street, the home faces the Northeast River and was originally designed as a retreat for Christopher Columbus Thorn, Chief Engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Columbus is home to a state university, the Mississippi University for Women.

Columbus is also home to the oldest public elementary school in Mississippi, Franklin Academy Elementary, founded in 1821.

Columbus became home to a KC-135 tanker squadron, and a B-52 bomber squadron in the late 1950s.