In Valladolid (Val-la-de-lid), Spain, where Christopher Columbus died in 1506, stands a monument commemorating the great discoverer.
-Perhaps the most interesting feature of the memorial is a statue of a lion at the base of it where the Spanish National Motto is engraved.
-The lion is reaching out with its paw and is destroying one of the Latin words that had been part of Spain’s motto for centuries.
-Before Columbus made his voyages, the Spaniards thought they had reached the outer limits of earth.
-Thus their motto was "No More Beyond."
-The word being torn away by
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