Talk:Blasco de Garay

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A fact from Blasco de Garay appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 30 April 2008.

The idea of a Renaissance era steamer is very attractive - too attractive! Spaniards love tall stories - they'll tell you in the most intricate detail and with the greatest of gravity the biggest story they can get away with for the sport of it all - and this has all the elements - Charles V, the treasurer, arguments over money, the eternal battle between the visionary and the narrow minded, etc. Is it true? Did Garay actually test some sort of primitive steam ship way back then? Are there any old documents - letters, memorials, cheque stubs, something, other than Tomas Gonzalez's letter to Navarrete? Or is this one of those tall stories that has developed a life of its own with its retelling with Gonzalez and Navarrete laughing all the way to their graves, and beyond? Provocateur (talk) 04:53, 30 April 2008 (UTC)