Christopher Columbus, master navigator whose four transatlantic voyages ... way to one shaped from the perspective of the inhabitants of the Americas themselves. ... Felipa died in 1485, and Columbus took as his mistress Beatriz Enríquez de ... by which down to this day we do not know certainly that anyone has passed; ...
In 1492, a Spanish-based transatlantic maritime expedition led by Italian explorer Christopher ... Although he did not realize it, this search failed when he encountered the New World between Europe and Asia. ... them down, and tried and hanged one of the ringleaders, Adrián de Mújica. ... Views. Read · Edit · View history ...
J.P. Morgan, in full John Pierpont Morgan, (born April 17, 1837, Hartford, ... Morgan had intimate and highly useful connections with the London financial world, ...
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese communist leader who was the most powerful figure in China ... It was not until Mao's death in September 1976 and the consequent fall from ... In 1987 Deng stepped down from the CCP's Central Committee, thereby ...
23 Jul 2020 ... A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and politician who was president of ... Unlike scientists, engineers are not free to select the problems that ...
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose ... Leonardo did not seriously study Latin, the key language of traditional ... sought his advice on how to ward off a threatened Turkish incursion in Friuli.
Antoine Lavoisier, prominent French chemist and leading figure in the ... as a student was not a subject particularly noted for conceptual clarity or theoretical rigour. ... Noting that burning gives off light and heat, that warm-blooded animals ...
Benjamin Franklin, American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, ... Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History, Brown University. ... He took off his leather apron and became a gentleman, a distinctive status in the ... Social Studies for Kids - Biography of Benjamin Franklin · UShistory.org - The ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen consort of both Louis VII of France (1137–52) and Henry ... She was perhaps the most powerful woman in 12th-century Europe. ... lifetime; after the loss of Normandy (1204), it was her own ancestral lands and not the ... Richard insulted Leopold V, duke of Austria, by tearing down his banner and ...
27 Jun 2020 ... Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher, mathematician, and political ... Leibniz dreamed of reconciling—a verb that he did not hesitate to use time and ... His baccalaureate thesis, De Principio Individui (“On the Principle of the ... To ward off this danger and divert the King's interests elsewhere, the ...
Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.), and a ... together, which they did after Hewlett-Packard formally turned down Wozniak's design in 1976. ... He would later be renowned for his insistence that the Macintosh be not ...
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian army officer who served as prime minister ... by the Muslim Brotherhood, Nasser cracked down on this extremist Muslim religious ... Even the loss of two wars, with disastrous results for Egypt, did not dim the ...
24 Jul 2020 ... Muhammad Ali, American boxer and social activist who was the first ... who were opposed to war in any form, Ali was not eligible for such an ...
Pablo Escobar, Colombian criminal who, as head of the Medellin cartel, was ... Not only did the facility include a nightclub, sauna, waterfall, and soccer field, it also ... The euphoric effects of sniffing cocaine are relatively transitory and wear off ...
25 Jul 2020 ... Robert Schumann, German Romantic composer renowned particularly for ... But at Leipzig his time was devoted not to the law but to song composition, ... Fricken, but long before the engagement was formally broken off (Jan.
Miguel de Cervantes, novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote ... There is no reason to suppose that the marriage did not settle down into an ...
24 Jul 2020 ... Read more about Bach's life and career. ... His experience at Lüneburg, if not at Ohrdruf, had turned him away from the secular string-playing ...
30 Jul 2020 ... Joseph Conrad, English author of Polish descent whose works include the ... Conrad's father, Apollo Nalęcz Korzeniowski, a poet and an ardent Polish ... whole ship's company, except Conrad and the cook, was down with fever. ... finest, and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies not only the heart ...
1 Jul 2020 ... For many people, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther said, "the statue ... In 2018, the city of Columbus opted not to observe the federal holiday that honors its controversial namesake. ... To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
1 Jul 2020 ... "That does not represent our great city, and we will no longer live in the shadow of our ugly past." The imposing monument to Columbus will be ...
18 Jun 2020 ... It made no comment on the atrocities committed by Columbus against Native ... members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) tore it down.
3 Feb 2020 ... Portuguese King Joao opposed this decision because it cuts off the favorable ... the seas meant new possibilities of connection, not obstacles.
First, he needed ships and supplies, which required money that he did not have. He went to King John of Portugal who turned him down. He then went to the ...
16 Jun 2020 ... Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats ... Columbus statues have been either beheaded or taken down by ... Send questions and comments about this story to [email protected] ...
16 Jun 2020 ... Columbus was already down and strapped onto a truck and off to (not) discover new worlds by 8 a.m. today. So far, park officials have refuse to ...
9 Oct 2019 ... ... student, Zyahna Bryant, started a petition on Change.org to take it down. ... The debate over Columbus is not new in the rest of the continent.
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Stars appeared in the sky and (marvellous to behold) the birds fell down from ... Viète did not like Clavius's calendar and the people of Frankfurt rioted against ...
22 Jun 2020 ... The nature of Marlowe's service to England was not specified by the ... The Massacre at Paris is a short and lurid work, the only extant text of ...
Biography of Spiro Agnew, vice president for U.S. Pres. Richard ... could be indicted, Agnew launched an attack on the administration and vowed not to resign.
Pompeii, preserved ancient Roman city in Campania, Italy, that was destroyed ... The cities had not yet recovered from this catastrophe when final destruction ... and other volcanic debris began pouring down on Pompeii, quickly covering the ...
28 Jul 2020 ... There is no consensus on what a slave was or on how the institution of ... Slavery continued to be a feature of Chinese society down to the 20th ...
While Kazakhstan was not considered by authorities in the former Soviet ... Very fertile soils characterize the lands from far northern Kazakhstan down to the ...
Whether or not Wikipedia can solve these demographic problems, it has undoubtedly ... This set off the so-called “UNIX wars” among minicomputer enthusiasts.
Italo-Ethiopian War, an armed conflict in 1935–36 that resulted in Ethiopia's ... League of Nations when League decisions were not supported by the great powers. ... in which statues of Mussolini were torn down, Fascist symbols removed, and ...
Versailles, Palace ofThe Marble Court at the Palace of Versailles, France. ... Landscape artist André Le Nôtre created symmetrical French gardens that included ... North of the terrace, manicured ornamental gardens slope gently down to the ...
Augustine asserted that Christians' credibility was dependent on their not being ... and one sister, he seems to have been the only child sent off to be educated.
In modern usage, it embraces any of the Arabic-speaking peoples living in the ... Arabs of today, however, are not exclusively Muslim; approximately 5 percent of ... Arabs live in cities and towns, where family and tribal ties tend to break down, ...
The islands—including Taiwan, those of Japan and Indonesia, Sakhalin and other ... subcontinent broke off from Africa and began drifting northeastward to collide ... The mountain systems of Central Asia not only have provided the continent's ...
A moving body keeps moving not because of its inertia but only because of the absence of a force to slow it down, change its course, or speed it up. Read More ...
Cathaysia, a landmass comprising the former tectonic plates of North and South China, was not incorporated into Pangea. Rather, it formed a separate, much ...
24 Jul 2020 ... The Four Seasons, group of four violin concerti by Italian composer ... Spring (Concerto No. ... To go in haste, slide, and fall down to the ground, ... signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from ...
Fukushima accident, disaster that occurred in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi ('Number ... Daiichi nuclear power plant, northeastern Fukushima prefecture, Japan, ... 3 to overheat and partially melt down, leading at times to the release of radiation. ... It was not until the middle of December 2011 that Japanese Prime Minister ...
The Reconquest might have taken root at that earlier date had it not been for a resurgence ... At that time, Moorish unity broke down, and the Christian lands of northern Spain ... Alfonso IAlfonso I, sculpture in the Paseo de la Argentina, Madrid.
The Andes are not a single line of formidable peaks but rather a succession of ... of the Peru-Chile (Atacama) Trench off the Pacific coast of the continent and the ...
