Extra holiday
For all you non-Americans, this week we had a holiday in the US. It’s called Columbus Day. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared Columbus Day a national holiday, meaning government offices and banks are closed (although many companies don’t shut down). It was an opportunity to reflect on the efforts that resulted in the creation of our nation, plus it gave the labor movement an extra holiday.
Officially, Columbus Day commemorates the Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492 (although he thought he’d landed in India). Almost every American school child knows the rhyme: “in fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” He did sail the ocean blue, or blueish, but when he landed on San Salvador (in what is now The Bahamas). In one of the most giant “oops, my bad” ever, he thought he’d landed in India. While he didn’t quite land in India…
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