Happy Columbus Day!

[Svartalf]

Julius Caesar is revered for his part, but he bragged about killing a million Gauls

--no easy feat, that.

And as your typical Latine character, he greatly exaggerated his own prowess... heck even the political enemy who called him "every woman's man and every man's wife" did that.

[Sean Hayden]

I thought I was cynical for suspecting their unusual honoring of enemies in this way may have been vanity masquerading as respect.

[Hermit]

Well, without columbus, the history of Europe would be very different now (no influx of precious metals, no access to colonial products like cane sugar, cotton, indigo and coffee, and no access to American crops like tomato, potato, tobacco, chili peppers or chocolate.... so much as I rue what happened to the indigens, I'll still hail Cristobal Colon

In view of our currently active forum members from the USA I wish the earth were flat and Columbus had sailed off the edge, never to be seen or heard of again, even if this were at the cost of never experiencing the pleasures that cane sugar, cotton, indigo, tomato, potato, tobacco, chilli pepper and chocolate bring.

What are your thoughts on James Cook?

He was a pioneer of what our racists complain about today.

[Svartalf]

that picture is a classic