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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
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3: ...that Columbus fought with opposition based on the idea that the earth was flat is a literary [[myth]] ...
5: ...t to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third voyage). However, there...
7: ...g in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
163: * [[Spain]] (España) - [[Madrid]]
180: *[[Barbados]] - [[Bridgetown]]
189: ...[[Dominican Republic]] (Republica Dominicana) - [[Santo Domingo]]
208: *[[Trinidad and Tobago]] - [[Port-of-Spain]]
230: * [[Uruguay]] - [[Montevideo]] - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
10: <tr><td>[[Abidjan]] <td>[[C?d'Ivoire]] (administrative)
49: <tr><td>[[Bridgetown]] <td>[[Barbados]]
124: <tr><td>[[Madrid]] <td>[[Spain]]
139: <tr><td>[[Montevideo]] <td>[[Uruguay]]
167: <tr><td>[[Port-of-Spain]] <td>[[Trinidad and Tobago]] - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...s|Azores]]and [[Madeira Islands|Madeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Islands]]).
20: ...e Consolidation of the Monarchy in Portugal|Consolidation of the kingdom]]'''''
29: ...143]], Portugal was formally recognized. Afonso, aided by the [[Templar Knights]], continued to conque...
40: ...land which they called [[Porto Santo island|Porto Santo]], or ''Holy Port'', in gratitude for their rescu...
47: ... despite having no son and heir to the throne, decided to go personnaly into battle, where he was slai... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...e generally centered on [[Meridian (geography)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15...
6: ... reference point for Time Zones is the [[Prime Meridian]] ([[longitude]] 0?) which passes through the ...
8: GMT (UTC) is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only betwe...
18: ...r time zones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is o...
27: See also: [[Sidereal time]] [[Calculating local time]] - Macau (16856 bytes)
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5: ... large.png|125px|Flag of Macau]] || align=center width=130px| [[Image:Macau_coa.png|125px|Macao Coat o...
7: | width="130px"| ([[Flag of Macau|Flag]])
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40: ... [[Special Administrative Region]] of the PRC. Residents of Macau mostly speak [[Cantonese Chinese|Can... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
7: ...on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|Middle Eastern]] [[slave]] owned by Piero.
9: ...s as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his father's name because of his illegiti...
12: ...ndrea's pupils was Leonardo da Vinci, in whom, besides a beauty of person never sufficiently admired a...
18: ... about his relations with his assistant, Salai, "Did you play the game from behind which the Florentin...
20: ...ivate life particularly secret, and there is no evidence that Leonardo was ever intimately involved wi... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
2: ...that they are realistic, spirited and clever individuals who are grounded in reality (in contradiction...
9: ...his studies allowed him the opportunity to study widely and make good contacts with fellow scholars. H...
11: ...|Chaucer]]'s ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]''), ''Teseida'' (ditto the ''Knight's Tale''), ''Filocolo'' a ...
13: Boccaccio returned to Florence in early 1341, avoiding the plague in that city of 1340 but also missi...
15: ...vaged Florence. His step-mother died during the epidemic and his father, as Minister of Supply in the ... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
5: ...am the ''Spuds'' around this time, but that name didn't stick.
18: ...te as their primary color. After a summer of individually arranged contests among the various teams, t...
20: ...Leary's barn on DeKoven Street on the near south side of the city. The [[Great Chicago Fire]] destroy...
22: ...this was going on, behind the scenes the club President, [[William Hulbert]], was leading the formatio...
24: ... season is a dubious proposition, but it does provide some perspective to note that a similar winning ... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
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2: ... 16th and 17th century through the southeast and midwest of today's [[United States|USA]].
15: ...e [[governor]] of [[Cuba]] ''y adelante de La Florida'' (meaning: all lands north of Mexico) by [[Empe...
17: == Expedition to Florida 1538-1542 ==
19: === 1539 – Landing in Florida === - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
12: ...g against the [[Spanish Empire]]; the Spanish considered him an outlaw [[pirate]], but to England he w...
13: ... to this point sponsored and encouraged Drake's raids, signed a temporary truce with King [[Philip II ...
24: ...een altered to this end. It is unlikely that the riddle of Drake's port will ever be unraveled, for th...
26: It is said that Drake left behind many of his men as a small...
28: ... Huguenots had founded an ill-fated colony in Florida in the 1560s.) This was seen as a chink in the a... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
11: ...]], with [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] as president, becomes the [[Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)|K...
21: ...onal Gallery of Art]] is officially opened by President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosev...
28: ...rs with suppressing information related to the incident.
30: ...tliner, [[Avianca Flight 410]], crashes into the side of the mountains near the [[Venezuela]]n border ...
31: *[[1992]] - A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the [[Israe... - Cusco Region (4142 bytes)
5: president = Carlos R. Cuaresma|
27: ... elevations and local characteristics like the residual highlands which originate from the wearing of ...
34: The region is divided into 13 [[province]]s (''provincias'', singular...
41: * [[Chumbivilcas]] ([[Santo Tom᳝]) - Cusco (5603 bytes)
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11: | align=center width=135 | City coat of arms
36: ...he ''hurin'' and ''hanan'', which were further divided to each encompass two of the four provinces, Ch...
38: ...ast empire of Tahuantinsuyu. But archaeological evidence points to a slower, more organic growth of th... - List of Major League Baseball players (29066 bytes)
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28: *[[Vic Aldridge]]
120: *[[David Bell (baseball)|David Bell]] *
154: *[[Vida Blue]]
294: *[[David Cone]] - List of major league baseball players (29066 bytes)
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28: *[[Vic Aldridge]]
120: *[[David Bell (baseball)|David Bell]] *
154: *[[Vida Blue]]
294: *[[David Cone]] - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
6: ...tés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
29: Cortés did not arrive in the "[[New World]]" until he finall...
31: Upon his arrival in 1504 in [[Santo Domingo]], the capital of Hispaniola, the eightee...
34: ...accompanied [[Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar]], an aide of the governor of Hispaniola, in his expedition...
38: ...dictably, Velázquez’s jealousy exploded and decided to place the leadership of the expedition in ot... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
5: ...to parents who were [[Hidalgo (Spanish nobility)|hidalgos]] of modest means in [[Extremadura]], a regi...
9: ...me, [[Juan Ponce de León]], who discovered [[Florida]], [[Vasco Núñez de Balboa]], who discovered t...
12: In 1530, de Soto became a regidor of [[León, Nicaragua]], and led an expedition ...
14: ...hile de Soto was gone the Spanish in Cajamarca decided to kill Atahualpa to prevent his rescue by the ...
16: ...of Atahualpa, had joined Pizarro. Manco had been hiding from Atahualpa in fear of his life, and was ha... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
8: ...mb|left|A large artificial [[Christmas tree]] outside a shopping mall in [[Hong Kong]]]]
10: ...tmas-like festivities even though they do not consider themselves Christians. Many customs, including ...
12: ... and [[Macau]] designate Christmas as a public holiday on December 25. Both are former [[colony|coloni...
20: ...n language|Korean]], Local radio stations play holiday music on Christmas Day and a few days before, w...
22: ...cially enjoy the fellowship these observances provide; after the Christmas Eve services, for example, ... - Padua (12961 bytes)
2: ...pening into large communal ''piazze'', and many bridges crossing the various branches of the [[Bacchig...
7: ...hree chambers into which the hall was at first divided; the internal partition walls remained till the...
9: ...close by is the [[Palazzo del Capitanio]], the residence of the Venetian governors, with its great doo...
11: ...is covered by seven [[cupola]]s, two of them pyramidal. On the piazza in front of the church is [[Dona...
27: ...y for Laguna, according to a chronicle. The city did not easily recover from this blow, and Padua was ...
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