Walking home after a tour with Franklin, we passed a Spanish restaurant with a tile facade. On the entry wall was a tile painting of an Arab. He said to us "That is Boabdil, the last ruler of Granada. Columbus could not discover America until that Arab King was defeated." I knew that Columbus was a sailor, that Granada was in Nicaragua but no one had ever told me about the Arab Boabdil. But I liked his face and enjoyed touching the tiles. I would have touched the picture but the owner if the restaurant was watching. During the remainder of the walk home, we heard the story of the Arab King, Boabdil, also called Ibn Amar.