| 词汇 | columbia |
| 词源 | Columbia; columbium. Although america was named for someone else, Columbus did win fame on the globe in the name for Colombia, South America, the U.S. District of Columbia, and a number of towns and cities. Columbus itself has for centu- ries meant an intrepid discoverer or explorer; Columbus Day (October 12) commemorates the discovery of America; and Columbia is the feminine symbol for America from which the element columbium is named. Christopher Columbus—Cristo- foro Colombo in his native Italian and Christóbal Colón in Spanish—arrived in America in 1492, a familiar story that needs no repeating here. He may have come ashore in the Bahamas on an island he named San Salvador and which is now called Cat or Watlings Island, but his landing site is disputed by histori- ans. A sailor named Rodrigo de Triana first sighted the New World. See america; verrazano. |
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