In a turning point for humanity, Columbus received a visa to America.

aphorism by Octav Bibere
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I am anchoring off her coast

I am Christopher Columbus
She is America!

poem by Framarz Bagheri
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

classic quote by James Joyce
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It is an egg of Columbus.

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Goodbye Little Columbus

The plane is waiting, you must to go
goodbye Im gonna miss you
And all the things you say at a leaving
Ah just turn your head and walk away
Goodbye little columbus
Goodbye, Ill see you one day
Goodbye little columbus
Travelling, just travelling
That certain moment, the final call
And that desperate search for cest la vie
Oh what youd give to hear of a slight delay
Ah just turn your head and walk away
Walk away, just walk away
Goodbye little columbus
Goodbye, Ill see you one day
Goodbye little columbus
Travelling, just travelling
Youve made up your mind
And youve got to go

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I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

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Discovery

The petals of the vagina unfold
like Christopher Columbus
taking off his shoes.

Is there anything more beautiful
than the bow of a ship
touching a new world?

poem by Richard Brautigan
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

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Columbus

Once upon a time there was an Italian,
And some people thought he was a rapscallion,
But he wasn't offended,
Because other people thought he was splendid,
And he said the world was round,
And everybody made an uncomplimentary sound,
But he went and tried to borrow some money from Ferdinand
But Ferdinand said America was a bird in the bush and he'd rather have a berdinand,
But Columbus' brain was fertile, it wasn't arid,
And he remembered that Ferdinand was married,
And he thought, there is no wife like a misunderstood one,
Because if her husband thinks something is a terrible idea she is bound to think it a good one,
So he perfumed his handkerchief with bay rum and citronella,
And he went to see Isabella,
And he looked wonderful but he had never felt sillier,
And she said, I can't place the face but the aroma is familiar,
And Columbus didn't say a word,
All he said was, I am Columbus, the fifteenth-century Admiral Byrd,
And, just as he thought, her disposition was very malleable,
And she said, Here are my jewels, and she wasn't penurious like Cornelia the mother of the Gracchi, she wasn't referring to her children, no, she was referring to her jewels, which were very very valuable,

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poem by Ogden Nash
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Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

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I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

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Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

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If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

quote by Arthur Goldberg
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Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

quote by Louise Erdrich
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

quote by Oscar Wilde
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Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

quote by Milton Friedman
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Discovers' Day October 8,2007

Who?
Just who
authorized

the printer of my
wall calender
to remove Columbus

replacing him with
Discovers' Day?
Who, just who?

When I bought the calender
sure I did not read the fine print.
Didn't think I needed to.

Is it because he and his men
may have brought
smallpox and syphilis

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poem by Tom J. Mariani
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What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

quote by Margot Asquith
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If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

quote by Sean Connery
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