Columbus Day + Thanksgiving

Hey guys! :) Lucky for us, not only can we celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada with turkey on October 8th 2011, we can also remember the great achievements of Christopher Columbus! In 1971, president Nixon named Columbus Day as a national holiday, which is always on second Monday of October (same as our Canadian Thanksgivings!)

Everyone knows that Columbus sailed and landed in the Americas on the 12th of October 1492, but did you know that he was from Genoa (a.k.a. he was Italian). With the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria (the three ships), plus with Queen Isabella's + King Ferdinand's (Spain) permission, he sailed westwards hoping to for riches. Because of the Fall of Constantinople by the Muslims (and thus created the Ottoman Empire), Columbus was hoping to discover a new trade route to India and Asia instead of through the Middle East (and obviously, get rich and famous because China and India have lots of valuable commodities). Instead, he found the Americas ^-^!.

And here's a historicLOL about Columbus

Obviously the whole myth about Columbus wanting to prove the earth was not flat was untrue, but still, this historicLOL is still funny :)