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Official logo of the commemoration. The Columbus Quincentenary (1992) was the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' 1492 arrival in America.Similar to Columbus Day, the annual celebration of Columbus' arrival, the quincentenary was viewed contentiously, as different cultures and peoples had different ways of understanding Columbus' role in history.
On November 16, 2018, the 33 members of the United States Semiquincentennial were sworn in at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and convened their first organizing meeting to begin eight years of planning and organizing for the 250th national birthday celebration. Dilella estimated that the group would meet three or four times a year. [44]
450 years: Sesquincentennial: 500 years: Quincentenary Quincentennial 600 years: Sexacentennial Sexcentenary 700 years: Septcentennial Probably [attribution needed] a coined term; earliest known use in March 1988. [10] Chiang Mai Septcentennial Stadium (Chiang Mai, Thailand) was completed in 1991. [11] Septuacentennial 800 years: Octocentennial ...
Jill Filipovic writes that as America celebrates its independence, a sense of fear looms as a day of revelry could easily turn deadly, given our country’s problem with mass shootings.
Her later years were marked by her advocacy for research for Alzheimer's, which plagued Ronald Reagan for a decade. Nancy Reagan died in 2016 at the age of 94 and was buried at her husband's ...
America 500 Years is the title of a series of paintings created in 1988–1991 by Nabil Kanso in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America. The works in the series base their subjects on historical events in the Americas over the course of five centuries.
This week, see the face of the 500-year-old “Ice Maiden,” uncover the unlikely secret of starfish, spy glowing cosmic clouds, and more.
Geneticists have variously estimated that peoples of Asia and the Americas were part of the same population from 42,000 to 21,000 years ago. [15] New studies shed light on the founding population of indigenous Americans, suggesting that their ancestry traced to both east Asian and western Eurasians who migrated to North America directly from ...