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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...rary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was o...
13: It has generally been accepted that he was [[Genoa|Genovese]], although doubts...
43: ... distance to the Indies. Most scholars accepted [[Ptolemy]]'s claim that the terrestrial landmass (for...
46: Columbus accepted the calculations of [[Pierre d'Ailly]], that th...
54: ... of lobbying at the Spanish court, where he was kept on a salary to prevent him from taking his ideas ... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
7: # It was desirable to adopt a single world meridian to replace the numerous o...
10: # All countries would adopt a universal day.
15: ...] and [[Brazil]] abstained. The French did not adopt the Greenwich meridian until [[1911]]. - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
24: *[[Egypt]] (Misr) - [[Cairo]]
189: ...nican Republic]] (Republica Dominicana) - [[Santo Domingo]] - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
56: <tr><td>[[Cairo]] <td>[[Egypt]]
189: <tr><td>[[Santo Domingo]] <td>[[Dominican Republic]] - Argentina (30219 bytes)
61: ...e that eventually led to the ascendance of [[Juan Domingo Per (b. [[1895]]). New social and political f...
67: ...by the [[United Kingdom]] in an unsuccessful attempt to seize the [[Falkland Islands|Falklands/Malvina...
71: ...most of the 1990s. Unfortunately, widespread corruption in the administrations of President Menem and ...
128: ...sed by the effects of the monetary policy which kept the US dollar exchange rate artificially low, the...
158: ...h both domestic and foreign investors remained skeptical of the government's ability to pay debts and ... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
9: ...h Sea]], and eventually, after the death of the captain for whom he was sailing, becoming the master o...
13: ...ted of Drake's [[Caribbean]] adventures was his capture of the Spanish Silver Train at Nombre de Dios ...
22: ...h ports like [[Valpara�]] as it went. He also captured Spanish ships on the journey north, making go...
24: ...h Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was discovered in [[Ma...
34: ... He brought with him a rich cargo of spices and captured Spanish treasures, and was hailed as the firs... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
142: *[[Domingo Bᱥz]], (1528-1604){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}} - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
1: ...pecies of [[plant]]s and [[animal]]s that have adapted to this harsh [[desert]] environment. Some exam...
63: ...and the other was a one-eyed Basque butcher named Domingo Etcharren. Keane, quite by accident, discovered ...
85: ...ath and Panamint valleys area from space. The elliptical depression to the left is the Searles Lake ba...
98: ...carbonate-rich sediments were periodically interrupted by periods of emergence. Although details of ge...
100: ...events in Death Valley.png|timecale image]]). Erupting volcanoes and uplifting mountains were created... - Cusco (5603 bytes)
44: ...estroyed the Dominican Priory and Church of Santo Domingo, which were built on top of Korikancha, but the c...
46: ...of the Inca after the capture of Cuzco, the [[sculpture garden]] at [[Chulquipalta]] (aka ''Chuquipalt... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ... founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, an ex...
6: ...al. As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either ...
14: ...a Cortés, was an [[infantry]] [[Captain (OF-2)|captain]] of distinguished ancestry but slender means....
20: ..., and mischievous. This was probably a fair description of a sixteen-year-old boy who had returned hom...
31: Upon his arrival in 1504 in [[Santo Domingo]], the capital of Hispaniola, the eighteen-year-o...
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