The prevailing notion that if you can walk and talk after exposure, it's safe; ignores the fact that long-term, adverse effects occur from sub-lethal exposures to toxic commercial pesticides. Toxic household insecticides create long term health hazards for dogs, cats, babies, children, and adults.
Christopher Columbus was a sailor from his teen years. He first sailed to the New World in 1492 - he was born in 1451 that would make him 41. The Queen of Spain commissioned him in 1492 and he sailed west with 3 ships and a crew of 90. October 12th 1492 he found an island in the Bahamas that he named San Salvador. He thought he reached Asia.
On May 20, 1506, the great Italian explorer Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid, Spain. Columbus was the first European to explore the Americas since the Vikings set up colonies in Greenland and Newfoundland in the 10th century. He explored the West Indies, South America, and Central America, but died a disappointed man, feeling he had been mistreated by his patron, King Ferdinand of Spain. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. Little is known of his early life, but he worked as a seaman and then a sailing entrepreneur. He became obsessed with the possibility of pioneering a western sea route to Cathay (China), India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia.