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A growing number of scholars believe that the ecological transformation set off by Columbus's voyages was one of the establishing events of the modern world.

The Real Story of Globalization Charles C. Mann 2011

Transported in the bodies of sailors, malaria may have crossed the ocean as early as Columbus's second voyage.

The Real Story of Globalization Charles C. Mann 2011

Meanwhile, Columbus's museums have reminders of what happened in 1916, such as the bullet holes in the door of the bank's vault and in the front seat of one family's roadster.

Pancho Villa, once a terrorist, now celebrated in New Mexico 2011

Ordinary people didn't always accept that, but even in Columbus's time, the educated still knew that.

Getting Ricardo Wrong, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Meanwhile, Columbus's museums have reminders of what happened in 1916, such as the bullet holes in the door of the bank's vault and in the front seat of one family's roadster.

Pancho Villa, once a terrorist, now celebrated in New Mexico 2011

The occasion was the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America, and the promoter of the Pledge was a popular national magazine called the Youth's Companion.

One Nation, Indivisible Melanie Kirkpatrick 2010

The ships that the Europeans used to explore, conquer and colonialize in the fiftieth and sixteenth centuries ranged from Columbus's flagship Santa Maria, which measured around eight-six feet, to Francis Drake's famous Golden Hinde, which was about seventy feet long.

Jim Luce: Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet Found in Japan Jim Luce 2011

The historian Hugh Thomas, in "Rivers of Gold" 2004, wrote eloquently about the first stage of the conquest of the New World: Columbus's voyages to the Caribbean, Cortés's subjugation of the Aztecs in Mexico, the expeditions of Magellan and others.

His Wealth of Nations Brendan Simms 2011

The ships that the Europeans used to explore, conquer and colonialize in the fiftieth and sixteenth centuries ranged from Columbus's flagship Santa Maria, which measured around eight-six feet, to Francis Drake's famous Golden Hinde, which was about seventy feet long.

Jim Luce: Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet Found in Japan Jim Luce 2011

In this week's movie releases, an orangutan grows old in the Paris zoo, two wives give their husbands a week-long "hall pass" and a film crew goes to Bolivia to film the story of Christopher Columbus's American conquest.

New movies: 'Hall Pass,' 'Even the Rain,' 'Nenette' 2011