Columbus Day (United States, Honduras)
Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a Federal holidays in the United States, federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's Voyages of Christopher Columbus, arrival in the Americas. Columbus went ashore at Guanahani, Guanahaní, an island in the The Bahamas, Bahamas, on October 12, 1492. On his return in 1493, Columbus moved his coastal base of operations 70 miles east to the island of Hispaniola, what is now the Dominican Republic and established the settlement of La Isabela, the first permanent Spanish settlement in the Americas. Christopher Columbus ( it, Cristoforo Colombo ) was an Italian explorer (from Republic of Genoa, Genoa) who led a Spanish maritime expedition to cross the Atlantic Ocean in search of an alternative route to the Far East, only to land in the New World. Columbus's first voyage to the New World on the Spanish ships ''Niña (ship), ''the Niña' ...
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Dióscoro Puebla
Dióscoro Teófilo Puebla Tolín (25 February 1831 – 24 October 1901) was a Spanish painter in the Eclectic style who specialized in portraits, genre and history painting. Biography Puebla was born in Melgar de Fernamental. His first studies took place in the public schools of Carrión de los Condes, where he displayed his talent for drawing. This led to his enrollment at the new "Escuela Municipal de Dibujo de Palencia", which had been created in 1838 and ultimately produced many well-known Spanish artists, including José Casado del Alisal, Eugenio Oliva and Asterio Mañanós Martínez. In 1845, he enrolled at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid,Brief biography
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