Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Who is Mona Lisa?
The Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings in history also has one of the biggest mysteries in history. Who is Mona Lisa?Over the years people have made a few guesses.
* Lisa Di Gherardini, this is a very educated guess, she was 26 at the time, and had recently lost a baby, that would explain the dark mourning clothes and the veil.
* Pacifica Brandano
* Isabella Sforza
* some even say it's Leonardo's (the painter) mother
* some go as far as to say it was Leonardo's self portrait of him as a young girl!
* a few say shes to beautiful to be a person and is just an imaginary woman

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Christopher Columbus day

Christopher Columbus Day
Should Christopher Columbus have a holiday after him? I guess that's an opinion. Well my opinion is that he should not, he did not even set-foot on American soil, but yet he has his own national day named after him?!?! This is my debate on whether Columbus should even be in the history books.
My first reason why Columbus should not take credit for discovering America is that he did not even touch our dirt. He never landed on America!
He was not even supposed to sail to American the fist place, let alone claim that he discovered it! He was aiming to find a quicker, cheaper water rout to their trading post in
Asia.
So, who actually discovered it? Well according to my research the Vikings did. In fact, it it was about 500 years before Columbus even set-out on his "journey".
To be clear, I don't think Columbus should be in the History lessons at school. He did not discover America!