Columbus Day / Fiesta Nacional

[pirate_artist]

For everybody who has the day off from work today -- here in Spain, in the US, and across most of the New World -- it's pretty interesting to take a minute to see what it is we're all celebrating:

http://www.ems.kcl.ac.uk/content/etext/e019.html#d0e393

Exploitation and enslavement was the plan from day one!

Also, it's cool to see the spelling conventions in Early Modern Spanish.