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

Columbus has been home to many manufacturing companies, including Noblitt-Sparks Industries ( which built radios under the Arvin brand in the 1930s ) and Arvin Industries, now Meritor, Inc. After merging with Meritor Automotive on July 10, 2000, the headquarters of the newly created ArvinMeritor Industries was established in Troy, Michigan, the home of parent company, Rockwell International.

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.

* 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.

Although many types of balls are today made from rubber, this form was unknown outside the Americas until after the voyages of Columbus.

Balls used in various sports in other parts of the world prior to Columbus were made from other materials such as animal bladders or skins, stuffed with various materials.

Finally, at the same time as Madison Avenue became one-way northbound and Fifth Avenue became one-way southbound, Broadway was made one-way southbound between Madison Square ( where Fifth Avenue crosses ) and Union Square on January 14, 1966, completing its conversion south of Columbus Circle.

In recent years city officials have explored ways to revitalize the city and return Columbus to the days when Miller's architectural innovation made it one of the most envied cities in the US.

Prior to the center being built, visitors to the Capitol had to queue on the parking lot and ascend the stairs, whereupon entry was made through the massive sculpted Columbus Doors, through a small narthex cramped with security, and thence directly into the Rotunda.

The flight, made by Wright Brothers pilot Philip Parmalee between Dayton, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio.

The last film to be made was Carry On Columbus in 1992.

Korn made their first Pointfest appearance on May 15, 2011, at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Maryland Heights, Missouri, and their second Rock on the Range appearance on May 21, 2011, at Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.

This diversity led Thornton to describe the initial " exploration of the Atlantic " as " a truly international exercise, even if many of the dramatic discoveries as those of Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan were made under the sponsorship of the Iberian monarchs ", something that would give rise to the later myth that " the Iberians were the sole leaders of the exploration ".

The first major shipment of CONEXes, containing engineering supplies and spare parts, was made by rail from the Columbus General Depot in Georgia to the Port of San Francisco, then by ship to Yokohama, Japan, and then to Korea, in late 1952 ; shipment times were almost halved.

During the first voyage of the explorer Christopher Columbus ( mandated by the Spanish crown to conquer ) contact was made with the Lucayans in the Bahamas and the Taíno in Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola, and a few of the native people were taken back to Spain.

There are reports of contact made before the 1492 voyages of Christopher Columbus and the age of discovery between First Nations, Inuit and those from other continents.

That alternative route, different from the theoretical eastward route, was based on calculations of the Earth's circumference made by Columbus which showed the measurement to be substantially less than the classic 10, 000 mile figure given by Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC.

" The publication's efforts paid off when Benjamin Harrison declared Wednesday October 12, 1892 to be Columbus Day for which The Youth's Companion made " an official program for universal use in all the schools.

On August 21, 1952, the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus at its annual meeting adopted a resolution urging that the change be made universal and copies of this resolution were sent to the President, the Vice President ( as Presiding Officer of the Senate ) and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Wright and town citizens renamed the town “ Columbia ” in honor of Christopher Columbus in the hope of influencing the new U. S. Congress to select it as the nation ’ s capital, a plan George Washington favored ; a formal proposal to do so was made in 1789.

Many made their way to Bloomington, then east to hilly country, or they reached Jackson County and came north into future Brown County on the Sparks Ferry Road, or west from Columbus in Bartholomew County.

He was hitting. 315 for Triple-A Columbus when he made it to the majors late in the 1982 season.

Although discredited by many historians and archaeologists, some townspeople continue to claim that Westford was once a stopping point for Scottish Earl Henry Sinclair's surverying expedition to Greenland, Iceland, Nova Scotia, and Massachusetts which is said to have occurred in 1398, nearly 90 full years before Columbus made his discovery of The Americas.

The first official, regular Columbus Day holiday was proclaimed by Colorado governor Jesse F. McDonald in 1905 and made a statutory holiday in 1907.

During the railroad's construction in the 1850s, an offer was made to the towns of Columbus and Aberdeen to route the railroad through the towns, but both towns refused.

However, Columbus also had an arsenal that made gunpowder, handguns and a few cannon.

With the Korean War at an end and pilot production needs dropping, the decision was made to close the contract flying school at Columbus.