Christopher Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue
DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue In fourteen hundred and ninety-two."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (Evans, Rimbles, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope travel | ocean Christopher Columbus
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1451-1506 - Life of Cristoforo Colombo (who went by the Spanish name Cristóbal Colón), known in English as "Christopher Columbus"
1492 - first of Columbus's four voyages to the New World, which he never figured out was not the coast of Asia, because (although everyone knew the world was spherical) he used a blatantly wrong figure for its diameter and never thought to do an experiment to check the correct figure, which was known to everyone but him, He was indeed brave. He was also an extreme racist, so quarrelsome that his subordinates usually hated him, a credit-stealer, a money-grubber, and a bigot.
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #77, "Christopher Columbus" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Christopher Columbo" (character of Christopher Columbus)
File: AJRR077
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