columbus day in English
noun
1
a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492. It is observed by most states on the second Monday of October.
The Museum is open from Saturday, Memorial Day (last Monday in May) through Columbus Day (2nd Monday in October).
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1. Figures 15 and 16, below, are two Barograms for Astoria, one covering a 72-hour span for November 1981, and the other 72-hours for the Columbus Day Storm of October 1962
2. ‘So much Agita at the heart of so much accomplishment.’ ‘And a small strategic suggestion: Try to imagine the Agita suffered by a woman who thinks every female within radar range is after her boyfriend.’ ‘Another Columbus Day came and went, this time with none of the Agita that troubled some holiday parades in the past.’