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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 is one of violence and murder, while what happened to the native peoples is glossed over. Why do we honor a slave trader with a national holiday, parades, and statues? Why is "Columbus Day" a national holiday, but not election day? Etc.

Also to address- "It's far too easy to say it's just a bad holiday?"

It's not dismissal for dismissal's sake, as you see.

That's a common design.

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 same as you would tiles, so maintenance is nothing special.