Yiddish Columbus Day

"In fourteen hundred, ninety-two,
Columbus sailed the ocean blue...

Well, that's all well and good. Discovering an area of land that had just been sitting here for millions of years. But, I digest.
Yiddish Columbus Day is a celebration of all those famous guys and gals with the funny foreign names who discovered all the stuff that was already here, except European humanity (oxymoron) hadn't put its stamp of approval on it, and taxed it.
De Soto, De Leon, Columbus, Magellan, Bering, the Vikings, whomever, just celebrate 'em for finding stuff that Mother Nature already knew about.
I recommend celebrating Yiddish Columbus Day they way I do: rediscover an obvious geographical landmark, and name it after yourself (you know, the Pacific Ocean, the Mississippi, the cafeteria), and claim it for whatever country or group you represent.
"I claim this cafeteria for Spain!!"

And if you really feel like it, claim it for the Yiddish. They'd appreciate it.