-Bruce wrote:

"post #1500

1500 C.E. (circa 450 B.M.C.) - Christopher Columbus is arrested on Hispaniola and sent home in chains. Chinese inventor Wan Tu devises a flying chair using 47 rockets; they explode, killing him. The rumors that Vlad Tepes was a tea drinker and invented syphillis are finally put to rest (the Dutch will not bring tea to Northern Europe for another 110 years)."