TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.
Christopher Columbus, depicted in relief on the Spain pavillion at the site of the Spanish-American Exhibition of 1929, now an absolutely stunning park in Seville that we visited on Friday last.
And here is his family's crest. The panel in the lower left looks like islands, and it does, in fact, represent the West Indies.
