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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
46: ...vered less space on the earth's surface than commonly believed. Finally, Columbus read maps as if the ...
54: ...1492. Ferdinand and Isabella had just conquered [[Granada]], the last [[Muslim]] stronghold on the [[Iberia...
56: ... had already lined up. Financially broke from the Granada campaign, the monarchs left it to the royal treas... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
6: ...[Ibn Juzayy]], whom he had met while in [[Granada|Granada]]. This account, recorded by Ibn Juzayy and inter...
13: ... embarked on the first of his detours. Three commonly used routes existed to Mecca, and Ibn Battuta ch...
15: ...first trip who prophesied that Ibn Battuta would only reach Mecca after a journey through [[Syria]]. A...
20: ...ra]], then [[Isfahan (city)|Isfahan]], which was only a few decades away from being nearly destroyed b...
59: ...travelled through [[Valencia]], and ended up in [[Granada]]. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 2005]] to serve in that position. ...
33: ...even less popular [[Community Charge]], more commonly known as the [[poll tax]]. At the same time the ...
47: ...icy of the Labour Government as being steps "not only towards [[Socialism]], but towards [[Communism]]...
61: ...ion]] to [[Scotland]]. An interview she gave to [[Granada Television]]'s [[World in Action]] programme in [...
69: ...al Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] and [[INLA]] prisoners in [[Northern Ireland|Northern Irela... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...]). As a young man he joined the war to conquer [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] state on the [[Iber... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
12: Previously, books were copied mainly in [[monasteries]], or (from the [[13th century]...
14: ...ks was not received with unanimous encomium. Not only did the [[Roman Curia|papal court]] contemplate ...
16: ...d that this incredibly rapid expansion shows not only a higher level of industry (fueled by the high-q...
18: ...quista]] in the 1490s, the press was moved from [[Granada]] to [[Istanbul]] (a popular destination for thou...
23: Gutenberg's findings not only allowed a much broader audience to read [[Martin... - Islamic architecture (6677 bytes)
59: ...[Alhambra]], the magnificent palace/fortress of [[Granada]], with its open and breezy interior spaces adorn...
67: ...nsive use of precious and semiprecious stones as inlay and the vast quantity of white marble required ... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
8: *[[1492]] - [[Reconquista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spa...
136: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/1/2 Today in History: January 2] - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
21: ...ing a deep sentiment, but she unfortunately died only 4 years later, when Castiglione was in Rome agai...
23: ...eror|Charles V]] to [[Toledo]], [[Sevilla]] and [[Granada]]. When in [[1527]] [[Lansquenets]] invaded and r...
36: ...rs are another point of interest, describing not only the man and his personality, but also details ab... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
3: ...in enforcing the ''[[limpieza de sangre]]'' ("cleanliness of blood") against descendants of converted ...
8: ...avily populated by [[Islam|Muslims]]. Until 1492, Granada was still under [[Moorish]] rule. The large citie...
18: ...as [[Pope Sixtus IV]] sanctioned the Inquisition only in the state of Castile. Later, Borgia was to ha...
20: ...thority of the Inquisition was supposed to reach only Christians, not Jews or Muslims, but since [[149...
44: ...als as suspected heretics in Spain, but of these only about 1,200 - 2,000 were actually sentenced to t... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
4: ...Vildemos, [[Trujillo]] and [[Granada, Nicaragua | Granada]] were taken. In [[1666]] Morgan commanded a ship...
8: ... Morgan found three Spanish ships waiting at the inlet to the [[Caribbean]]; but these he destroyed or...
10: ...gly, after ravaging the coasts of Cuba and the mainland, Morgan determined on an expedition to Panama.... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
169: The name platinum mainly derives from the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''...
175: ...'', the unworkable metal found with gold in [[New Granada]] ([[Colombia]]). British [[privateer]]s intercep...
190: ...sed makes up for the fact that platinum makes up only two parts per million of the ore.
202: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/78.html Los Alamos National Laborato... - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
6: ...talian states were defeated by foreign powers (mainly Spain); some of them (e.g. Milan and Naples) wer...
18: *[[Treaty of Granada]] - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
8: ...n General]] of the [[Frontier]], [[Prefect]] of [[Granada]], who was at the service of the [[Catholic Kings...
21: ...ed his expedition before they began trekking the inland trail on April 22 1540.<ref>Winship. P. 38, 40...
48: ...Mexico, the Mixtón Rebellion was already over. Only 100 of his men made it back. The expedition was ... - Pomegranate (4637 bytes)
17: ...e ''granatus'', meaning 'granular'. The city of [[Granada]] in [[Spain]] became an early centre of cultivat...
26: The only other species in the genus, '''Socotra Pomegrana...
47: A pomegranate appears in the shield of Granada.
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