Also, in his native Portuguese language, the last name of Christopher Columbus, which some at the time viewed as symbolic of his role as a colonizer of the New World (His actual first name was read as "Christ-bearer".
Nowadays, of course, the word colon can quite frequently mean an extension of the anus.
This is, perhaps, an appropriate title for the man who was the first racist, if by race you mean major groups, in the New World, among other things cutting off the hands of Native Americans and allowing them to bleed to death when they did not work as quickly as Columbus would have liked.
One of those little coincidences that just make one wonder whether whatever God there may be does not have a truly twisted sense of humor.