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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 - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
4: ...victed of these murders and was forced into exile from Iceland. This event led him and a group of foll...
6: ...e commodities such as seal (used for rope), ivory from tusks, and beached whales if they happened to b...
12: ...d (North America). Leif invited his father on the voyage but according to legend Erik fell off his horse o... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
1: ...nce|French]] [[List of explorers|explorer]] and [[French Navy|naval officer]], who explored the south ...
4: ...]. He immediately arranged for the government of France to acquire one of the most valuable and famou...
6: In [[1822]] he sailed on a voyage around the world under [[Louis Isidore Duperrey|C...
8: ...und out the probable place of the death of [[Jean-François de La Pérouse|La Perouse]].
10: ... a coastal area of Antarctica that he named the [[French Southern Territories|Adélie Coast]] in honor... - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[...
7: ...lies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
9: ...nt. Cibola was nothing like the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pu...
12: ..., New Mexico]]). During his wintering he suffered from fierce attacks by the Indians.
18: Men from his expedition were the first Europeans to see ... - 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 ...
9: ...nlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's voyages led to a relatively quick, general and lasting r...
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 ... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ... [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[1557]]) was a French [[Exploration|explorer]] who is popularly tho...
5: ... His good name in Saint-Malo is recognized by its frequent appearance in baptismal registers as godfat...
9: ...ascertained. Considering that Cartier made three voyages of discovery in dangerous and hitherto unknown w...
11: ==First Voyage 1534==
13: ... he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France. During this trip he took [[Domagaya]] and [[... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...am]]ic scholar and [[Jurisprudence|jurisprudent]] from the [[Maliki]] [[Madhhab]] (a school of [[Fiqh]...
8: ... all that is known about Ibn Battuta's life comes from one source – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn...
13: ...ney to Mecca was by land, and followed the North African coast of the [[Maghreb]] region quite closely...
17: ...joined up with a caravan travelling the 800 miles from Damascus to [[Medina]], burial place of [[Muham...
20: ...ity)|Isfahan]], which was only a few decades away from being nearly destroyed by [[Timur]]. Next were ... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...], thought the seafaring trailblazers setting out from European docks were travelling to [[East Asia]]...
10: ...([[New World]]) and the ''Lettera'' (or "The Four Voyages"). While some have suggested that Vespucci was e...
14: ...]] of that year). Little is known about the final voyage.
16: ...9, while on this voyage. But his claim is clearly fraudulent, which casts more doubt on Vespucci's cre...
18: ...this expedition was [[Gon�alo Coelho]]. On this voyage he sailed southward along the coast of [[South Am... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
8: ...hilippa of Lancaster]], daughter of John of Gaunt from his first wife [[Blanche of Lancaster]]. Her fi...
16: ...sary of [[Christopher Columbus|Columbus]]'s first voyage. In the same year she was the first woman to be f...
18: The regime of [[Francisco Franco]] claimed the prestige of the Catholic Monarc...
19: ... a reaction, Isabella was despised by opposers to Franco.
30: *[[Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros|Cardinal Cisneros]], I... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
9: ...nd [[political theorist]]. Her first novel, ''The Voyage Out'', was published in [[1915]]. This novel was ...
11: ...s of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the ...
13: ... Lily Briscoe; "The Waves" present a group of six friends whose reflections (closer to recitatives tha...
22: ...ayal of Woolf in the movie. The film was adapted from [[Michael Cunningham]]'s Pulitzer Prize-winning... - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
12: ...equence of the cultivation of her mind, she not unfrequently appeared in public in presence of the mag...
18: ... from each other without further inquirey,) range from: a local, spontaneous Christian uprising tolera...
22: ...andrian church. And surely nothing can be farther from the spirit of Christianity than the allowance o...
26: ... punished by the Christians and the Jews expelled from the city] a multitude of believers in God arose...
38: ...n his popular science book ''[[Cosmos: A Personal Voyage|Cosmos]]''. Earlier writers with that perspective... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
11: ...d the Passion]]'',(in which she co-starred with [[Frank Sinatra]] and [[Cary Grant]], the latter to wh...
13: ...ss, especially in Italian projects where she more freely expressed herself, although she gained profie...
15: ...elling album of comedic songs and also reportedly from whom she had to fend off romantic advances.
17: ... in films such as the last De Sica movie, ''[[The Voyage]]'', with [[Richard Burton (actor)|Richard Burton...
21: ...ren was the first movie star to launch a personal fragrance) but made very well-received appearances i... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
2: ...976]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[sailor]] from [[Whatstandwell]] near [[Matlock, England|Matlo...
6: ...ited Kingdom|UK]] and "Sailing's Young Hope" in [[France]].
16: ...eating the previous record set by French sailor [[Francis Joyon]] by 1 day, 8 hours, 35 minutes, 49 se...
18: ...-> conferred upon [[Sir Francis Drake]] and [[Sir Francis Chichester]] upon arrival home after their r... - Violet (plant) (3474 bytes)
29: ... sniff all you like, you won't get any more smell from the flower!
33: ...nd [[Daniel Solander]] on the [[James Cook|Cook]] voyage to [[Botany Bay]].
35: '''[[African violets]]''' are not related to the true viol... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ... Middle Ages of Western Europe are commonly dated from the end of the [[Western Roman Empire]] ([[5th ...
6: ...ern European historians. That term has now fallen from favor, partly to avoid the entrenched stereotyp...
8: ... lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise o...
12: ...oon converted, following the example of the pagan Frank [[Clovis I]]. The interaction between the cult...
14: ...ying cultural influence, preserving its selection from Latin learning, maintaining the art of writing,... - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
1: ...re written down in ''Il Milione'' ("The Milione", from Polo's family nickname ''Emilione'', or ''[[The...
3: ==The first voyage==
5: ...at [[Khanbaliq]] (now [[Beijing]]). They returned from China as [[Kublai Khan]]'s envoys with a letter...
7: ...re is a tradition that the Polo family originated from the island of [[Korcula|Korčula]] in today...
10: ==The second voyage== - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...ccompanied [[Christopher Columbus]] on his second voyage to the [[New World]]. He became the first [[Gover...
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...
12: ...hree ships at his own expense, and set out on his voyage of discovery and conquest in 1513. On [[March 27]... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...e so-called '''Age of Exploration''' was a period from the early [[15th century]] and continuing into ...
7: ... East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city states. Their close links to t...
9: ...[[Marco Polo]] who traveled throughout the Orient from [[1271]] to [[1295]]. His journey was written u...
11: These voyages had little immediate effect, however, the Mongol...
15: ...iving European sailors some idea of the shape of Africa and Asia. - Australia (39438 bytes)
28: established_dates=From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]:<br>[[1 January]] [[1...
44: ...notes=<sup>1</sup>There are some minor variations from these three timezones, see [[Australian States ...
50: ...island]], [[Boigu Island]], is about 5 kilometres from Papua New Guinea. This has led to a complicated...
54: ... Dalrymple]] in his ''An Historical Collection of Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean'', pu...
55: ...rt Jackson]], taken from the South Head, from ''A Voyage to Terra Australis''. [[Sydney]] was established ... - Americas (7154 bytes)
13: ...referring to U.S. citizens. In [[French language|French]], ''鴡ts-unien'' (''鴡ts-unienne'' for wom...
23: ...existence to the attention of [[Renaissance]] era voyagers, had died in [[1506]] (believing, to the end, t...
25: ...eem?s maps are alleged to incorporate information from the early British journeys to North America. T...
27: ...ld, and even changed the spelling of his own name from ''Alberigo'' to ''Amerrigo'' to reflect the imp...
29: ... death, people forgot where the name America came from, so they changed his name to Amerigo to explain...
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