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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
3: ...is usually tuned in D-G-B-D, a G-major chord. The Madeiran raj㯠is tuned D-G-C-E-A, in other words. the D ...
5: ... returned to the ukulele to its ancestral home of Madeira Island off the coast of North Africa. Flora Fox, ...
7: ...nes, was Bill Tapia's neighbor. He sold Bill his first instrument for 75[[cent|?]] in [[1915]].
11: ...ery popular in vaudeville in the days before amplification. The tension and tone are a little brighte...
13: ...rant tuning is the characteristic that most identified the original ukulele. - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
3: ...of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the relatively passive ...
7: ... [[Papacy]] also launched expeditions in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[Prester John]].
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Car...
11: ... East was always be too long and difficult for profitable trade and it was also controlled by Islamic ...
15: ...cient Greek geography]] was rediscovered, for the first time giving European sailors some idea of the ... - North Africa (3562 bytes)
14: ...ds]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Eritrea]], [[Azores]] and [[Madeira]] are sometimes considered to be a part of North ...
18: ...ypt and [[Libya]], often get included in common definitions of the [[Middle East]], not being part of ...
26: ...Unicode|Mizrāḥ}]]. Today, less than fifteen thousand remain in the region, though they r... - Brazil (12581 bytes)
1: ...of Portugal, Brazil has [[Portuguese]] as its [[official language]].
8: ...uguese and exploited mainly for [[brazilwood]] at first, and later for [[sugarcane]] agriculture. Work...
20: * [[Canga篝] (criminal hinterland bands in the first years of the [[20th century]])
21: ...zil's domination by the "coffee oligarchs" in the first years of the XX century)
22: ...ronelismo]] (reference to machine politics in the first years of the 20th century, still present on a ... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...he [[Azores Islands|Azores]]and [[Madeira Islands|Madeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Islands...
7: ...European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequen...
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] i...
17: ...success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. During this period...
31: ...n I]]), with the help of [[Nuno ?vares Pereira]], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most h... - Boto (5572 bytes)
24: The first type specimen was described by [[Henri Marie D...
26: Rice's 1998 classification lists a single species, ''I. geoffrensis'',...
28: ...ffrensis'' - Amazon basin population (excluding [[Madeira river]] drainage area, above the Teotonio Rapids...
29: ...g. boliviensis'' - Amazon basin population in the Madeira drainage area
32: Some older classifications listed the ''boliviensis'' population as a... - Endangered species (12553 bytes)
6: A listing as an endangered species can backfire, as it makes a species more valuable and more d...
44: * [[Fin Whale]] (''Balaenoptera physalus'')
145: * [[Micronesian Kingfisher]]
168: * [[Zino's Petrel]] (''Pterodroma madeira'')
208: == Endangered [[fish]] == - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
1: ...ince of [[Portugal]], looms large as an important figure in the early days of European [[colonial]] ex...
7: ...ortugal]]'s minority, and in return received a confirmation of this tax. Henry also arranged for the ...
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15: ...mmander of one of Henry's expeditions, became the first European known to pass the cape in [[1434]].
17: ...sels sailed from Lagos on Henry's behalf, and the first private mercantile expeditions began. At some ... - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
3: ...pedition of [[1910]]–[[1912]] which was the first to reach the [[South Pole]].
8: == First expeditions ==
10: ...Gerlache]], their ship the [[Belgica]] became the first to winter in [[Antarctica]]. Also on board was...
12: ...hers in the ship ''[[Gj?'. They traveled via [[Baffin Bay]], [[Lancaster Sound|Lancaster]] and [[Peel ...
14: ...a|Nome]] on the [[Alaska|Alaska Territory]]'s Pacific coast. 500 miles (800 km) away, [[Eagle, Alaska|... - Canary (4349 bytes)
14: ...s a small [[songbird]] which is a member of the [[finch]] [[family]].
16: This [[bird]] is native to [[Madeira islands|Madeira]] and the [[Canary Islands]]; it was named for th...
22: ...very twittering like the [[European Goldfinch|Goldfinch]].
24: Canaries were first bred in the 1600's. They were brought over by...
26: The same occurred in England. First the birds were only owned by the rich but even... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
4: ...1838]]. Fully aware of the likely reaction, he confided only in close friends and researched to meet a...
6: ...ent]] as the dominant scientific theory of diversification in nature. He continued his research and w...
15: ...e Mount, Shrewsbury|The Mount House]]. He was the fifth of six children of [[Robert Waring Darwin|Robe...
17: ...a boarder at the ''[[Shrewsbury School]]''. After finishing school, Darwin went to [[Edinburgh Univers...
19: ...fe cycle of marine animals on the shores of the [[Firth of Forth]] where Grant found evidence for ''ho... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
37: | [[Finland]]
73: | [[Madeira]] - Rock formations (10410 bytes)
1: ...ng rock. Rock formation in general refers to specific sedimentary [[stratum|strata]] or other rock uni...
11: ...]''' are created when molten rock cools and solidifies, with or without crystallization. They may be e...
48: *Talava Arches, [[Niue]], South Pacific
166: *Cerro Fitz Roy, El Chalten, [[Argentina]]
227: *Narpes, [[Finland]] - Akvavit (2178 bytes)
6: ...rd it is popularly quipped that akvavit helps the fish swim down to the stomach.
8: ...n other brands. A similar process is applied to [[Madeira wine]].
10: ...rs, on the other hand, tend to treat akvavit like fine whisky, sipping slowly away and delving into fl...
17: ...]] to akvavit at a private home dinner, Norwegian film director [[Harald Zwart]] excused akvavit's tas...
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