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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
7: ...ing the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|Ce...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...], thought the seafaring trailblazers setting out from European docks were travelling to [[East Asia]]...
14: ...oyage was made in [[1497]] (which allegedly began from [[C�diz]] on [[May 10th]] of that year). Litt...
16: ...9, while on this voyage. But his claim is clearly fraudulent, which casts more doubt on Vespucci's cre...
22: ...tters, whether or not he wrote them all himself. From these letters, the European public learned abou... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
4: ...ped conquer the [[Taino]]s of the eastern part of Hispaniola, and was rewarded with the governorship of the Pr...
7: ...d won his rights. Ponce de León was then removed from office in 1512 and felt his good name had been ...
11: ...was made in [[New York]] in 1882 using the bronze from English Cannons seized after the English attack... - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
1: ...], located south of [[Cuba]] and to the west of [[Hispaniola]], on which [[Haiti]] and the [[Dominican Republi...
44: | <font size="1">From [[West Indies Federation]] and [[United Kingdom...
65: ...it by the original [[Arawak]] or [[Taino]] people from South America, who first settled there around t...
67: ...s achieved through the massive use of imported [[Africa]]n [[slavery|slave]] labor.
71: Jamaica slowly gained increasing independence from the [[United Kingdom]], and in [[1958]] Jamaica... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
5: ...ern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to conquer the ...
10: ...rld until 1506. He took part in the conquest of [[Hispaniola]] and [[Cuba]] and was granted a large estate of ...
12: ...o Hernández de Córdoba (discoverer of Yucatán)|Francisco Hernández de Córdoba]] in [[1517]] and [...
15: ...georgiasouthern.edu/international/pages/SECOLAS/CAFryer.htm]
18: ...), and a dialect of Nahautl spoken only to and in front of the Mexica/Aztec emperor. - Solenodons (2732 bytes)
2: ... image | image = [[Image:Solen5.jpg]] | caption = Hispaniolan Solenodon, ''S. paradoxus''}}
20: ...ir. Between 70-80 centimeters (28-32 inches) long from nose to tail, solenodons are known to become ve...
22: ...of specimens or their markings occurring rather infrequently. The Cuban Solenodon was thought to have ...
24: ...s on the second lower incisors (Solenodon derives from the Greek "grooved tooth"), which makes the Sol... - List of island countries (6641 bytes)
112: *[[Hispaniola]] - [[Dominican Republic]] and [[Haiti]]
116:
193: *[[Territory of Hawai?i]], a US territory from 1898 to 1959, now part of the United States.
196: ...[New Caledonia]], now an overseas department of [[France]]
212: ...e Cook Islands and Niue are in [[associated state|free association]] with New Zealand. See [[Niue Con... - Mammal classification (78467 bytes)
9: ...sh among the orders within these subclasses and infraclasses. This system also makes no note of the p...
19: *Infraclass [[Metatheria]]
46: *Infraclass [[Eutheria]]
185: ...istory]], New York. McKenna inherited the project from Simpson and, with Bell, constructed a completel...
203: *Infraclass †[[Allotheria]] - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
2: ...ttle Stephen") of North African origins, possibly from [[Azemmour]], [[Morocco]]. He is mentioned in ...
5: ...can parents or was brought to Azemmour from west Africa by the trans-Saharan slave trade. He was conve...
8: ...ng so Estevanico became the first person born in Africa known to have set foot in what is now the [[co...
10: ...ause his medicine gourd was trimmed with feathers from an [[owl]], a bird that symbolized death to the... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...ursue a livelihood in the New World. He went to [[Hispaniola]] and later to [[Cuba]], where he received an ''[...
14: ...ás de Ovando y Cáceres]], the third Governor of Hispaniola. His paternal grandfather was a son of [[Rodrigo ...
16: ...by his [[biographer]], [[chaplain]], and friend [[Francisco López de Gómara]]. At the age of 14, Cor...
18: ...ence as a notary, first in Seville and later in [[Hispaniola]], would give him a close acquaintance with the l...
20: ...ld boy who had returned home only to find himself frustrated by life in his small provincial town. - Medieval medicine (14745 bytes)
9: ...d other remedies. Such spells had to be separated from the physical remedies, or replaced with Christi...
15: ...the [[spinal cord]] controls various [[muscle]]s. From his dissections, he described the [[heart]] val...
17: ... ''Leechbook'' (circa [[900]]), include citations from a variety of classical works alongside local fo...
19: ...ed, the revival of methodical medical instruction from standard texts in the west can be traced to the...
21: ...ine, beginning as a craft tradition until [[Roger Frugardi]] of [[Parma]] composed his treatise on ''S...
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