A rare chance to step aboard history is being offered to town visitors as a full-scale replica of a 15th century ship that ...

Christopher Columbus' three ships — the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa María — will be replaced with the steelpan, a popular percussion instrument that originated in the eastern Caribbean island.

President Donald Trump apparently doesn’t know that Christopher Columbus was arrested, locked in chains and shipped to Spain for trial. Or that he died in virtual obscurity. Trump wants to ...

and strength of the people who were already here to greet Columbus’ ships. (A recent evaluation of Columbus may be found in the book “Columbus: The Four Voyages” by Laurence Bergreen.) ...

Christopher Columbus’ three ships – the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa María – will be replaced with the steelpan, a popular percussion instrument that originated in the eastern Caribbean ...

Christopher Columbus famously set sail in 1492 with a fleet of three ships: the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Although he sought a western passage to India, Columbus instead made landfall ...

A year later, Columbus returned with 17 ships and 1,200 men to enlarge the settlement. But he found La Navidad in ashes. There were no inhabitants and no gold. Over the years, many scholars and ...