The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

During the last week of march 1961, Columbus, Ohio was the site of the Fourth Symposium on Temperature, Its Measurement And Control In Science And Industry.

The greatest source of trouble was rain which had repeatedly flowed from openings above, soaking the surface and leaving streaks of dissolved lime, very conspicuous even after cleaning, particularly in the `` Landing of Columbus '', `` Oglethorpe and the Indians '', and `` Yorktown ''.

He was in his car with his camera and equipment bag in less than two minutes, and it took him only three more to reach the corner, a block from Columbus Avenue.

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

Gen. Beauregard arrived at Johnston's headquarters at Bowling Green on February 4, 1862 and was given overall command of Polk's force at the western end of Johnston's line at Columbus, Kentucky.

Amerigo Vespucci () ( March 9, 1454February 22, 1512 ) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus ' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians.

Washington Irving was instrumental in popularizing Columbus.

His version of Columbus ' life, published in 1829, was more a romance than a biography.

In the years following the Revolution the poetic device " Columbia " was used as a symbol of both Columbus and America, King's College of New York changed its name in 1792 to Columbia, and the new capitol in Washington was subtitled District of Columbia.

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

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

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.

Columbus had found the two small islands ( Cayman Brac and Little Cayman ) and it was these two islands that he named " Las Tortugas ".

Columbus, who was searching for a route to India, believed the island to be a peninsula of the Asian mainland.

During a second voyage in 1494, Columbus passed along the south coast of the island, landing at various inlets including what was to become Guantánamo Bay.

The Spanish began to create permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, east of Cuba, soon after Columbus ' arrival in the Caribbean, but the coast of Cuba was not fully mapped until 1509, when Sebastián de Ocampo completed this task.

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.

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.

On 29 April 2009 the company announced that it was suspending the Citation Columbus program and closing the Bend, Oregon facility.

The Columbus program was finally cancelled in early July 2009.

In its first series it was a single-game cup, played each year at minor-league Cooper Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, was staged just days before the start of each new Major League Baseball season.

The Ohio Cup was a favorite among baseball fans in Columbus, with attendances regularly topping 15, 000.

Following the discovery of the islands by Columbus, the area was quickly colonised by several Western cultures ( initially Spain, then later Portugal, England, the Dutch Republic, France and Denmark ).

The following European ISPRs have been initially installed inside Columbus:

In the mid-1960s, Pete Dye initially requested Nicklaus ' opinion in the architecture process of The Golf Club in suburban Columbus, Ohio, and the input increased from that point forward.

The new council was initially funded through the help of various civic-organizations namely: the YMCA, Knights of Columbus, Masons, Elks, Filipino and Chinese Chambers of Commerce, the U. S. Army, the Catholic and Protestant churches, and the American Legion.

Beach was initially assigned to the heavy cruiser USS Chester ( CA-27 ), before joining the newly-recommissioned destroyer USS Lea ( DD-118 ), which participated in the neutrality patrol in the Atlantic, the escort of the German passenger liner Columbus, the initial American occupaton of Iceland, and convoy duty in the North Atlantic.

Later that year, WWHO switched its primary affiliation to UPN ( as " UPN 53 " initially, then identifying as " UPN Columbus ," without a channel number ) and The WB was reduced to secondary status.

The basilica's 16th-century coffered ceiling, to a design by Giuliano da Sangallo, is said to be gilded with Inca gold presented by Ferdinand and Isabella to the Spanish pope, initially brought by Christopher Columbus, Alexander VI ( something which factually is erroneous, since the Inca empire was conquered during the reign of Charles V ).

These neighborhoods were also initially developed as “ streetcar ” developments, the intention being that most residents would rely upon the High Street streetcar lines to travel to downtown Columbus.

Some writers ( initially Peruvian librarian Louis Ulloa in 1934 ) have even speculated that Johannes Scolvus may have been the young Christopher Columbus, and others that he is identical with Hans Pothorst or João Vaz Corte-Real.

Although the Columbus Crew initially tried to acquire Gibbs, he eventually ended up with FC Dallas, then known as the Dallas Burn.

Columbus initially wanted Joe Pesci to play Myron.

In 1492, contact with the New World was initially made by Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator employed by the Spanish, followed in 1497 by John Cabot, a Venetian navigator employed by the English.

The label was founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1985 by Kurt Kellison, initially as a video label producing live VHS recordings by bands such as Live Skull and The Flaming Lips.

Sadler initially focused on surgery, performing surgeries with his wife, but widened his practice to include psychiatric counseling in 1930 and became a consulting psychiatrist at Columbus Hospital.

The Crawfish River rises in Columbia County and initially flows generally eastwardly in a broadly meandering course, collecting the North Fork Crawfish River ( which also rises in Columbia County and passes through the village of Fall River ) and passing the city of Columbus.

After the discovery of the West Indies by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Spanish term Antillas was assigned to the lands ; stemming from this, " Sea of the Antilles " is a common alternative name for the Caribbean Sea in various European languages.

The host unit at Columbus is the 14th Flying Training Wing ( 14 FTW ) assigned to the Air Education and Training Command Nineteenth Air Force.

Training squadrons assigned to Columbus were the 423d, 424th, 425th, 426th, 427th and 428th TE Flying Training Squadrons.

On 8 January 1943, the War Department constituted and activated the 30th Flying Training Wing ( Advanced Twin-Engine ) at Columbus and assigned it to the AAF Eastern Flying Training Command.

Thus Columbus Air Force Base was relinquished to the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) in April 1955, the base being assigned to Second Air Force ( 2d AF ).

Musial was assigned to the Class AA Columbus Red Birds to begin 1941, though manager Burt Shotton and Musial himself quickly realized that the previous year's injury had considerably weakened his arm.

In September 2001, Guidoni was assigned to ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre ( ESTEC ) as crew support for the payloads to be developed for the Columbus Laboratory.

* ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts assigned to European Columbus laboratory mission to the ISS

Prospective airlift and tanker pilots are assigned to the airlift / tanker track, and train in the T-1A Jayhawk at Columbus AFB, Mississippi, Laughlin AFB, Texas, or Vance AFB, Oklahoma.

Student pilots headed for bomber or fighter assignments are assigned to the bomber / fighter track, and train in the T-38 Talon at Columbus, Laughlin or Vance.

The Yankees assigned Westbrook to the Triple-A Columbus Clippers in the International League.

He left the NHL in early 2005, shortly after being assigned to Columbus ' AHL affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch, and once again returned to Djurgården.

The Yankees assigned him to the Triple-A Columbus Clippers.