“In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” This rhyme pervades elementary schools across the United States on the second Monday of October. Teachers often briefly state that we celebrate Columbus Day ...

It’s the little rhyme every American child learns when October rolls around: In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Okay, so maybe he wasn’t trying to discover a new land, and there’s major ...

In fourteen-hundred-ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. In nineteen-hundred-ninety-two, There came a movie – even two. The first of these was a disgrace, The second’ll sink without a trace. If ...

Christopher Columbus is widely regarded as the explorer who discovered America, immortalized for elementary school students in the rhyme, “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” That line seems to ...