The incipit of a piece in the apparently indicatively-named LocalIQ:
Have you ever imagined Cleopatra, in 26 BC, staring up at the sky at Polaris — the North Star and bright and pointy handle of the constellation called The Little Dipper — and wondered how different it looked to her than it does to you now?
… talk about your captatio malevolentiae …
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A resurrected Cleopatra!
They’re doubly wrong: Polaris wasn’t even the pole star then (it changes over time): see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Ursae_Minoris, about the two stars that would have served as pole stars in 30 BC.