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Good riddance, medieval times!
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Fun fact: Uppercase letters were stored in the upper case; lowercase in the lower case.
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He did not look like this at birth.
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The Americas were already inhabited by "Indians", so he didn't discover them. He was very brutal. He tried to convert the tribes to Christianity, but if they refused, he massacred them. What a jerk.
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Cabot's real name was Giovanni Caboto, later anglicized to "John Cabot."
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No one knows the actual date.
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He still thought he had reached the Indies.
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Some people think that he worked on Mona Lisa until his death, in 1519. Some think he never even finished it. Looks pretty finished to me, though.
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You know, the guy who beheaded his wives.
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On the painting, God suspiciously looks like a human brain. Coincidence? I think not.
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He nailed it to the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, Germany.
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He was killed by savages in the Philippines three years later, in 1521.
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The reason he separated the Church of England from the Catholic Church of Rome was so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn.
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She was known as The Virgin Queen because she never got married or had children. Years later, the US state of Virginia was named after her.
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These moons are very dynamic and very interesting. Europa, the smallest one may have life under its icy surface.
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Phases like the Moon's. Crescent, quarter, full, and new. Unlike the Moon, crescent Venus is the brightest.
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He thought that it was a dim star. 200 years later, it was observed as a planet, in 1846.
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This began the Modern Era.
