re: #160 Anymouse 🌹

Wikipedia [citation needed] differs:

I get why Columbus Day is a holiday in Spain (in Rota it is a massive multi-day party with an agricultural fair, street parades, &c, as he sailed from San Lucar de Barrameda just up the road from there, and much of Latin America).

I don’t get why it’s a holiday here. He didn’t “discover” North America. He was looking for India; he thought the world was smaller than it was. If Hispaniola wasn’t in the way of his voyage, his crew would have starved and another legend would have run round of people sailing off the edge of the Earth.

He is famous by accident.

Answer—it’s politics…