Comments on: (October 12) Today we're celebrating . . .  Columbus Day http://blog.holidays.net/index.php/2009/10/12/october-12-today-were-celebrating-columbus-day/ Wrapping the world in holiday goodness Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:26:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Lawrence http://blog.holidays.net/index.php/2009/10/12/october-12-today-were-celebrating-columbus-day/comment-page-1/#comment-227007 Lawrence Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:38:10 +0000 http://blog.holidays.net/?p=10136#comment-227007 Shouldn't we call today Spread Slavery & Disease Day? It's interesting that America omits Columbus' "discoveries" right before, during AND after he got lost; or of his recommendations of what to do with the "Indians" after they saved his tookus. Try doing an online search of "Columbus and slavery" and see what pops up. Have a nice day everyone. Shouldn’t we call today Spread Slavery & Disease Day? It’s interesting that America omits Columbus’ “discoveries” right before, during AND after he got lost; or of his recommendations of what to do with the “Indians” after they saved his tookus. Try doing an online search of “Columbus and slavery” and see what pops up. Have a nice day everyone.

]]> By: Rich http://blog.holidays.net/index.php/2009/10/12/october-12-today-were-celebrating-columbus-day/comment-page-1/#comment-226985 Rich Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:24:36 +0000 http://blog.holidays.net/?p=10136#comment-226985 Shouldn't it be Amerigo Day? After all our country is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian we credit with discovering America. In Columbus's own words "Columbus never thought Vespucci had tried to steal his laurels, and in 1505 he wrote his son, Diego, saying of Amerigo, "It has always been his wish to please me; he is a man of good will; fortune has been unkind to him as to others; his labors have not brought him the rewards he in justice should have." Amerigo Vespucci was a Florentine merchant and navigator who made at least two transatlantic trips to the New World, voyages that inspired cartographer Martin Wardseemüller to label the new continent "America" in 1507. Somehow an account of a 1497 voyage was published, and Wardseemüller came to believe that Vespucci had commanded the expedition and had reached the New World before Christopher Columbus, who found the mainland in 1498. Wardseemüller named the continent America and the label stuck. Shouldn’t it be Amerigo Day? After all our country is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian we credit with discovering America. In Columbus’s own words “Columbus never thought Vespucci had tried to steal his laurels, and in 1505 he wrote his son, Diego, saying of Amerigo, “It has always been his wish to please me; he is a man of good will; fortune has been unkind to him as to others; his labors have not brought him the rewards he in justice should have.”

Amerigo Vespucci was a Florentine merchant and navigator who made at least two transatlantic trips to the New World, voyages that inspired cartographer Martin Wardseemüller to label the new continent “America” in 1507.

Somehow an account of a 1497 voyage was published, and Wardseemüller came to believe that Vespucci had commanded the expedition and had reached the New World before Christopher Columbus, who found the mainland in 1498. Wardseemüller named the continent America and the label stuck.

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