I should have said commemorate, rather than celebrate. It's just that the emphasis is always on his (accidental) "discovery" of the Americas. It's Euro-centric and skewed. His legacy...

Columbus...the very embodiment of mass murder. The fact that we celebrate this man annually speaks volumes about what is wrong with our country.

That's a common design.

I saw a very very very similar one at Fortunoff's this weekend (shopping with the parents, hehe).

You don't have to install one by one. You can buy mesh mounted stones in sheets from a tile supplier. This will save you tons of time, the result will be even, clean. You'll be grouting just the...