You may have learned in school that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492 in the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria and proved for the first time in history that the Earth wasn’t flat.

Everyone learns in school that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. Columbus occupies an exalted position in our history, honored with statues, place names and countless books and movies.

On Dec. 5, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered the West Indian island of Santo Domingo. In 1776, Phi Beta Kappa, the first scholastic fraternity in America, was organized at the College of ...

In the America's with David Yetman is available ... (David) The discoveries from Christopher Columbus voyage in 1492 unleashed a flurry of Spanish adventurers eager to become rich and powerful.

In a box in the archives of the National University of Ireland Galway, there is a bundle of yellowed letters, dating from 1935 to 1936, about a mysterious Galway man who sailed with Columbus on ...

Not only did Christopher Columbus not “discover” America, he was far from the first ... Italian explorer and navigator set foot here in 1492, according to a recent study published in the ...

A replica of the flagship of Christopher Columbus’s fleet during his 1492 voyage across the Atlantic has dropped anchor at St ...