During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, fashionable women wouldn’t consider travelling without a black velvet mask, called a vizard, to protect their complexion from the sun, from the dust kicked up by horses, and from gritty, polluted city air. Such… Read More
The map used by Columbus in 1492, which led him to believe he had found the Indies, had been created by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in AD 150. It was inaccurate.