Columbus

It is said that the Vikings preceded Columbus in discovering America.

Columbus argued that the earth was round.

Columbus believed that the earth was round.

Columbus argued that he could reach India by going west.

Columbus proved that the world is not flat.

Columbus sailed farther west to look for a new continent.

Columbus secured this region of interests.

Columbus discovered America.

Columbus discovered America in 1492.

Columbus' discovery of America was accidental.

"It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world."

"But, boy the powers of mud, I belayve you fellers mane to make an indepindint cruise in the Orient, and go Columbusing all over the ocean boy the way ye's talk!"

Callous as the old mummy was about anything and everything save his pet hobby, archaeology, he would sit up and take notice of such a vision ; and Peter felt that, having Columbused the discovery, he had the better right to it.

To the west of the river lay the country in which I went Columbusing — the enchanted desert whose southern boundary was where the sky reached down and merged with the earth curve, and whose northern limit was the Harqua Hala range […]

No street car line passes it, so you'll have to do a little Columbusing on your own account-to find it-—but it's worth discovering, and President Gardner's phophecy sounds conservative.

When his black friend tells him that many people knew about the bar before he did, his white friend retorts by saying that he “Columbused it”; i.e., discovered it for white people before a gaggle of hip white people flooded in.

Of course, there is no bouncer, but we can be careful not to Columbus other culture's traditions.

He then lists other things that have been Columbused, such as twerking by Miley Cyrus and hummus by “health conscious whities.”