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- Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...vigation|circumnavigating]] the [[globe]]. Though Magellan himself died in the [[Philippines]] and never ret...
5: ...㥳, the mayor of the town, and Alda de Mesquita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diogo de Sousa, nam...
7: ...ve been taught by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
9: ...ute, Almeida's party attacked, conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]] in present-day [[Tanzania]]...
11: ...xpeditions to the [[Spice Islands]]. In [[1510]], Magellan was promoted to the rank of [[captain]]. However,...
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
30: ...]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to ...
34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]]
53: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[Atlantic]] islands)
66: ... to the [[Indies]]; discovered various lands and islands and established a colony on [[Hispaniola]]
67: ...Pacific]], discovering or mapping many lands and islands - List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
56: *[[Ferdinand Magellan]] - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ... Cabot]], [[Juan Ponce de Le, and [[Ferdinand Magellan]].
11: ...r profitable trade and it was also controlled by Islamic empires that had long battled the Europeans. ...
15: ...the south. For them the ability to outflank the Muslim states of North Africa was seen as crucial to t...
18: ...he Sahara had been overcome and trade in gold and slaves began in with what is today [[Senegal]]. Prog...
22: ...he first contest was for control of the [[Canary Islands]], which Castille won. It was not until the u... - Hourglass (3146 bytes)
15: During the voyage of [[Ferdinand Magellan]] around the globe, his vessels kept 18 hourglass...
23: ...ed by the character Imhotep (played by [[Arnold Vosloo]]) in ''[[The Mummy Returns]]'' while threateni... - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
35: **[[Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary]]
169: * [[Stanislaw Samostrzelnik]]
254: * [[Ferdinand Magellan]] - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
14: ...ight and day sides of Venus despite its extremely slow rotation (less than one rotation per Venerean y...
18: ...ty of the atmosphere at Venus' surface, even such slow winds exert a significant amount of force again...
23: Venus has slow [[retrograde motion|retrograde rotation]], mean...
27: ...s's crust is stronger and thicker than had previously been assumed. It is theorized that Venus does no...
29: ...anets in the solar system. This may be due to its slow rotation being insufficient to drive an interna... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
9: ...ake made the first English [[Atlantic slave trade|slave-trading]] expeditions.
12: ...New World]] [[silver]]. Drake took an immediate dislike to the Spanish, at least in part due to his mi...
13: ...ce|French]] privateers and [[Cimaroons]] (African slaves who had escaped the Spanish), Drake raided th...
16: ...eved previously, but an archipelago, or group of islands.
18: ... three remaining ships departed for the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of the continent. This course... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...vigation|circumnavigating]] the [[globe]]. Though Magellan himself died in the [[Philippines]] and never ret...
5: ...㥳, the mayor of the town, and Alda de Mesquita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diogo de Sousa, nam...
7: ...ve been taught by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
9: ...ute, Almeida's party attacked, conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]] in present-day [[Tanzania]]...
11: ...xpeditions to the [[Spice Islands]]. In [[1510]], Magellan was promoted to the rank of [[captain]]. However,... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
16: ... had been sent out to look for [[Hy-Brazil]], an island that would lie somewhere in the [[Atlantic Oce...
22: ...undland, but others look for it in [[Cape Breton Island]], [[Nova Scotia]], [[Labrador]] or [[Maine]]....
26: ...[[1508]]), and one to repeat [[Ferdinand Magellan|Magellan]]'s voyage around the world, which ended up looki... - Chile (39914 bytes)
48: ...br><sup>2</sup> Includes [[Easter Island]] and [[Isla Sala y Gómez]]; does not include 1,250,00...
64: ...cultures supported themselves principally through slash-and-burn [[agriculture]] and [[hunting]]. The ...
66: ...e colony was driven northward. The abolition of [[slavery]] in [[1683]] defused tensions on the fronti...
74: ...nfirming Chilean sovereignty over the [[Strait of Magellan]]. As a result of the [[War of the Pacific]] with...
78: ...ity initiated a period of major reform. Under the slogan "Revolution in Liberty," the Frei administrat... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ... the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] explorer [[Ferdinand Magellan]]) is the world's largest body of [[water]]. It e...
5: ... are found south of the equator. (See: [[Pacific Islands]].)
7: ...Indian ocean]]s on the west, and the [[Straits of Magellan]] links the Pacific with the [[Atlantic Ocean]] o...
9: ... by underwater earthquakes, have devastated many islands and wiped out whole towns.
15: ... the sea as island groups, such as the [[Solomon Islands]] and [[New Zealand]], and deep trenches, suc... - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
4: ...d in the process of copying and [[translation|translating]]. Notwithstanding, with the beginning of th...
14: ...ed from the rest of the world by the spread of [[Islam]] in the [[7th century]], the European West bec...
27: ...], these universities aided materially in the translation, preservation and propagation of the texts o...
29: ... By 1200 there were reasonably accurate Latin translations of the main works of [[Aristotle]], [[Plato...
134: ...was an essential figure in introducing Greek and Islamic science into the medieval universities, but n... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
5: ...a|reconquest]] of the [[Iberian peninsula]] from Islamic forces. Spain and [[Portugal]] were filled wi...
9: ...it the "South Sea" below Panama), and [[Ferdinand Magellan]], who first sailed that ocean to the [[Orient]],...
38: ...e in 1540 and treated better than the rest of the slaves, due to his value to the Spaniards.
67: ... has spent many hours pouring over documents, translating from the original Spanish, and actually visi...
87: =====A Slight Variation In Texas===== - Space Shuttle program (41074 bytes)
75: ...of the ASRB program forced the development of the SLWT, which provides some of the increased payload c...
77: ...y, unmanned variant of the shuttle has been variously proposed and rejected since the 1980s. It is ca...
83: ... recovered after landing in the ocean, their fall slowed by [[parachute]]s
162: ***[[Magellan probe]]
269: ...ing the development costs of the shuttle tremendously. The original process by which contractors bid f... - Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
36: ...Moon]] and one of the two [[Magellan (Telescopes)|Magellan]] [[telescope]]s.
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