Two climate activists threw red paint over a 133-year-old painting of Christopher Columbus in a Madrid museum.
The two female activists were seen throwing red paint over José Garnelo's 'First Tribute to Christopher Columbus' at Madrid's Naval Museum.
A small gathered crowd shouted at them as they chucked the paint over the artwork, which depicts Columbus landing in the New World in 1492.
As they threw the paint, a guard sprinted in and slipped as he tried to stop them.
The two activists were then nabbed by other guards and unceremoniously carried out of the museum.
The pair were reportedly arrested for crimes against heritage.
The museum said its workers were forced to undertake an on-the-fly restoration of the painting.
Visitors were asked to leave the museum to allow its staff to restore the painting, which it was able to do within just a few hours.
This is the moment two climate activists threw red paint over a 133-year-old painting of Christopher Columbus in a Madrid museum
The paint protest took place on October 12, a national holiday commemorating Spain's historical legacy
The paint protest took place on October 12, a national holiday commemorating Spain's historical legacy.
Celebrations on October 12 ordinarily see large military and naval parades take place across the country.
Spanish citizens also dress up in traditional regional clothes and throw street parties to celebrate.
The two activists were nabbed by other guards and unceremoniously carried out of the museum
The museum said its workers were forced to undertake an on-the-fly restoration of the painting
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Columbus set sail on August 3, 1492, from the Spanish port of Palos with hopes of finding a route to the fabled riches of Asia.
Along with three ships, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, Columbus and roughly 100 men embarked on the journey that took them to the opposite side of the world – and far from their original destination.
On October 12, 1492, the ships made landfall in what is now the Bahamas and later in the month, Columbus spotted Cuba and thought it was mainland China.
On the second voyage in 1493, Columbus intentionally sailed back to the New World and landed in Puerto Rico.
Many Spanish came over the next four years.
The Europeans' arrival also led to a spread of deadly diseases like smallpox and measles, with many historians claiming Columbus brought also the first syphilis-like diseases to the Americas.
But a study found the disease was running rampant thousands of years before.
The first onset of a syphilis epidemic was documented in the late 15th Century in Europe, leading some historians to believe it was brought to America when Columbus set foot there.
But DNA evidence has now revealed that treponematosis, an age-old syphilis-like disease, existed in Brazil more than 2,000 years before the explorer set sail for the new world.
Columbus' CANNIBAL claims were true: Study shows South American 'Caribs' who were ate human flesh were already in the northern Caribbean when the explorer arrived in 1492
- The study discovered that the Caribs settled in the Caribbean by about 800AD
- Columbus claimed 'Carib' raiders would abduct women and cannibalize men
Arawaks and Caribs were enemies, but they often lived side by side with occasional intermarriage before blood feuds erupted
Around 800AD, the Caribs pushed north into Hispaniola and Jamaica and then the Bahamas - where they were well established by the time Columbus arrived
The 'Caribs' had already settled Jamaica and the Bahamas 700 years before Columbus arrived in 1492
Democratic Boston Representative Ayanna Pressley is facing calls to give up her $1.1 million Martha's Vineyard home after she claimed 'we are all on stolen land' on Columbus Day
Pressley and her husband Harris, who spent ten years in prison for drug trafficking, also own a two-unit rental property in south Boston
The Democrat owns four rental properties in Massachusetts, which earned her up to $350,000 in profit last year
Christopher Columbus was Jewish and from Western Europe, a study has found following the discovery of his remains 500 years after his death
Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493
Excerpt
I have determined to write you this letter to inform you of everything that has been done and discovered in this voyage of mine.
On the thirty-third day after leaving Cadiz I came into the Indian Sea, where I discovered many islands inhabited by numerous people. I took possession of all of them for our most fortunate King by making public proclamation and unfurling his standard, no one making any Columbus’s accomplishments as a navigator and explorer are irrefutable and justly catapult him into the first rank of historical figures. For hundreds of years after Columbus, the mapmaking and geography he spurred acted as anchors for countless scientific advancements. It is no exaggeration to say that the European voyages of discovery remain foundational to all modern science and technology. Columbus was the first to bring New World peoples back into contact with the major civilizations of the Old World,. The island called Juana, as well as the others in its neighborhood, is exceedingly fertile. It has numerous harbors on all sides, very safe and wide, above comparison with any I have ever seen. Through it flow many very broad and health-giving rivers; and there are in it numerous very lofty mountains. All these island are very beautiful, and of quite different shapes; easy to be traversed, and full of the greatest variety of trees reaching to the stars. . . .
In the island, which I have said before was called Hispana, there are very lofty and beautiful mountains, great farms, groves and fields, most fertile both for cultivation and for pasturage, and well adapted for constructing buildings. The convenience of the harbors in this island, and the excellence of the rivers, in volume and salubrity, surpass human belief, unless on should see them. In it the trees, pasture-lands and fruits different much from those of Juana. Besides, this Hispana abounds in various kinds of species, gold and metals. The inhabitants . . . are all, as I said before, unprovided with any sort of iron, and they are destitute of arms, which are entirely unknown to them, and for which they are not adapted; not on account of any bodily deformity, for they are well made, but because they are timid and full of terror. . . . But when they see that they are safe, and all fear is banished, they are very guileless and honest, and very liberal of all they have. No one refuses the asker anything that he possesses; on the contrary they themselves invite us to ask for it. They manifest the greatest affection towards all of us, exchanging valuable things for trifles, content with the very least thing or nothing at all. . . . I gave them many beautiful and pleasing things, which I had brought with me, for no return whatever, in order to win their affection, and that they might become Christians and inclined to love our King and Queen and Princes and all the people of Spain; and that they might be eager to search for and gather and give to us what they abound in and we greatly need.
Columbus Day was established as a federal holiday in 1934, but in October 2021, then-President Joe Biden issued the first-ever presidential proclamation for Indigenous Peoples Day to exist alongside it. You may recall that failed presidential candidate (and possible upcoming Democrat presidential nominee) Kamala Harris expressed her support for “efforts on the federal level to change the second Monday in October from Columbus Day to ‘Indigenous Peoples Day.’”
Columbus’s accomplishments as a navigator and explorer are irrefutable and justly catapult him into the first rank of historical figures. For hundreds of years after Columbus, the mapmaking and geography he spurred acted as anchors for countless scientific advancements. It is no exaggeration to say that the European voyages of discovery remain foundational to all modern science and technology. Columbus was the first to bring New World peoples back into contact with the major civilizations of the Old World.
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