"What should I care, your majesty, don't give me the money. Why should I go sailing around the world like some hoity toity big shot? My son, he went to university - He's a big shot. He speaks 5 languages - none of them Yiddish, but I should complain?"
King and Queen: "Give him the money. Just get him out of here. If we hear about his son one more time..."
Cause you were there right? Historians tend to disagree, Isabella herself read all of his navigational charts and treatises and made an educated investment.
Imagine if Columbus was a Jew.
"What should I care, your majesty, don't give me the money. Why should I go sailing around the world like some hoity toity big shot? My son, he went to university - He's a big shot. He speaks 5 languages - none of them Yiddish, but I should complain?"
King and Queen: "Give him the money. Just get him out of here. If we hear about his son one more time..."
To be fair it wasn't much different.
"I promisse you, it's not that big!!!" Eventually he survived only because there was land in the way.
Cause you were there right? Historians tend to disagree, Isabella herself read all of his navigational charts and treatises and made an educated investment.
Sorry, do I look like the god emperor? Of course I wasn't there!
Are you sure it wasn't just an excuse to get rid of the crazy lunatic with the wrong math?
"I'm sure, your magesty, india is right over there!"