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Article: CELEBRATING FOR REASONS ALL OVER THE MAP.(Lifestyle)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- October 12, 1999
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If you look at the pictures of Christopher Columbus and Casimir Pulaski, you gotta wonder why we celebrate both men today.
This could be Needs-A-Haircut-Day.
All right, Monday was the official Columbus Day and Pulaski Day, but today is the traditional Columbus Day, and we are dragging Pulaski into this to attract the attention of all you Poles who have a hard enough time getting people to acknowledge Copernicus, the Polish astronomer who discovered that the Earth - not Fremont - is the center of the universe.
Even by our more relaxed standards, Columbus and Pulaski looked sort of . . . extreme. Their portraits would look more compatible today ...