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Columbus DAY 2008
Monday October 13 is Columbus Day, a federal holiday. The following public services will be affected:
•Schools: Chicago Public Schools will be closed. Most parochial and suburban schools also will be closed.•Government offices: Federal, county and city offices will be closed.•Postal service: No mail delivery.•Courts: Federal, state and county courts will be closed, except for Cook County Central Bond Court.•Banks: Most will be closed.•Parking: Meters must be fed.•Transit: CTA, Pace and Metra will run on weekday schedules.
Columbus Day
Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492 in the Julian calendar and October 21, 1492 in the modern Gregorian calendar, as an official holiday. The day is celebrated as Columbus Day in the United States, as Día de la Raza (Day of the Race) in many countries in Latin America, as Día de las Culturas (Day of the Cultures) in Costa Rica, as Discovery Day in The Bahamas, as Día de la Hispanidad (Hispanic Day) and National Day in Spain, and as Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenous Resistance) in Venezuela.
Columbus day celebrations commemorate the Genoese explorer’s first expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. Columbus, on commission by the Spanish monarchy, was hoping to find a new naval route to India and the other nations of the East, but instead found the American continent which was virtually unknown to Europeans at the time. Columbus’s sailor Rodrigo de Triana was the first on the voyage to spot land in the New World; he found the island the natives called Guanahani at approximately 2:00 AM on October 12, 1492. The exact location of this island is unknown, though it was somewhere in the Bahamas. Columbus’s expedition launched the first large-scale European colonization of the Americas.
Courtesy : Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day
Monday October 13 is Columbus Day, a federal holiday. The following public services will be affected:
•Schools: Chicago Public Schools will be closed. Most parochial and suburban schools also will be closed.•Government offices: Federal, county and city offices will be closed.•Postal service: No mail delivery.•Courts: Federal, state and county courts will be closed, except for Cook County Central Bond Court.•Banks: Most will be closed.•Parking: Meters must be fed.•Transit: CTA, Pace and Metra will run on weekday schedules.
Columbus Day
Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492 in the Julian calendar and October 21, 1492 in the modern Gregorian calendar, as an official holiday. The day is celebrated as Columbus Day in the United States, as Día de la Raza (Day of the Race) in many countries in Latin America, as Día de las Culturas (Day of the Cultures) in Costa Rica, as Discovery Day in The Bahamas, as Día de la Hispanidad (Hispanic Day) and National Day in Spain, and as Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenous Resistance) in Venezuela.
Columbus day celebrations commemorate the Genoese explorer’s first expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. Columbus, on commission by the Spanish monarchy, was hoping to find a new naval route to India and the other nations of the East, but instead found the American continent which was virtually unknown to Europeans at the time. Columbus’s sailor Rodrigo de Triana was the first on the voyage to spot land in the New World; he found the island the natives called Guanahani at approximately 2:00 AM on October 12, 1492. The exact location of this island is unknown, though it was somewhere in the Bahamas. Columbus’s expedition launched the first large-scale European colonization of the Americas.
Courtesy : Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day
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