COLUMBUS DAY IS A LESS CELEBRATED HOLIDAY BY BLACKS
Discovery of this Great American Country is contributed mostly to ChristopherColumbus. We're so instructed in old history books, but it's also one of the lesser days celebrated by Blacks. Perhaps, even by many citizens the USA. Now... I admit History major I'm not, but an observer I am. I think Christopher Columbus would of wanted a bigger celebration of his discovery by all nations of people in America. Frankly, I just liked the history part of the three ships and because I learned these in history class...It was like my first Spanish lesson.
The Nina
The Pinta
and
The Santa Maria.
So it's confusing too...--that even Thanksgiving had connections with a treaty of Thanks as pilgrims landed from The Mayflower.. Oh, that's another celebration...-- and were given with sharing a meal with the original discoverers the Native Americans.
Think that's confusing...--However, in Canada; Columbus Day is Thanksgiving Day...Now, that's celebration!
Depending on where you live...
HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY...HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Do you know more about Columbus day?
It's Monday, October 11, 2010
The Nina
The Pinta
and
The Santa Maria.
So it's confusing too...--that even Thanksgiving had connections with a treaty of Thanks as pilgrims landed from The Mayflower.. Oh, that's another celebration...-- and were given with sharing a meal with the original discoverers the Native Americans.
Think that's confusing...--However, in Canada; Columbus Day is Thanksgiving Day...Now, that's celebration!
Depending on where you live...
HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY...HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Do you know more about Columbus day?
It's Monday, October 11, 2010
I keep wondering when Thanksgiving will be changed to a Monday. Then maybe Christmas, New Years...
Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas, specifically the Bahamas, which occurred on October 12, 1492 in the Julian calendar and October 21, 1492 in the modern Gregorian calendar, as an official holiday.
Since 1971, the holiday has been fixed to the second Monday in October, coincidentally the same day as Thanksgiving in neighboring Canada (which was fixed to that date in 1959). It is generally observed today by banks, the bond market, the U.S. Postal Service and other federal agencies, most state government offices, and some school districts.