The Monument of the Discoveries (Portuguese: Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Portuguese pronunciation: [pɐˈðɾɐ̃w duʒ ðɨʃkuβɾiˈmẽtuʃ]) is a monument on the...
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main sections of display: history, ethnography, and the colonial world. A Monument of the Discoveries of Portugal Padrão dos Descobrimentos was designed by...
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Ferdinand Magellan (redirect from List of places named for Fedinand Magellan)
"Ferdinand Magellan | Biography, Voyage, Map, Accomplishments, Route, Discoveries, Death, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 28 December 2023....
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Lisbon (redirect from Capital of Portugal)
which the Torre de Belém was built partly to defend. Belém's most notable modern feature is the Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Monument to the Discoveries) built...
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Navegador), was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion. Through...
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The timeline below shows the date of publication of possible major scientific breakthroughs, theories and discoveries, along with the discoverer. This...
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part of Padrão dos Descobrimentos, the Monument of the Discoveries This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Statue of Prince...
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Nuno Gonçalves (category Painters at the Portuguese royal court)
a monument to the Portuguese Age of Discovery in Belém, Lisbon. The only reference that art historians can use to support his authorship of the Saint...
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Portuguese Empire (redirect from History of the Portuguese Empire)
Major discoveries of gold and, later, diamonds in Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso and Goiás led to a "gold rush", with a large influx of migrants. The village...
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The Monument to Columbus (Spanish: Monumento a Colón), also known as Monument to the Discovering Faith (Spanish: Monumento a la Fe Descubridora), is a...
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Gaspar Corte-Real (category Explorers of Canada)
about the Corte-Real monument". CBC.ca. Retrieved 8 July 2020. White, Bailey (28 June 2020). "Symbols of the system: Discovery Day is done, but the conversation...
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The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, a Founding Father of the United...
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group called the Monuments Men. While this task force of art dealers and museum specialists were able to retrieve many of the stolen works of art, there...
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associated with the earliest discoveries, such as the Madeira Islands, the Azores, the Canaries, and to the early exploration of the north west African...
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The Camões Monument (Portuguese: Monumento a Camões) is a monument located in Luís de Camões Square in the Chiado neighbourhood of Lisbon, Portugal. The...
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Belém, Lisbon (category Districts of Lisbon)
Monument to the Discoveries (Portuguese: Padrão dos Descobrimentos) - located on the edge of the Tagus' northern bank, this 52 metre-high slab of concrete...
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version 1563, original translation 1601], The Discoveries of the World, from Their First Original unto the Year of Our Lord 1555, Translated & edited by Richard...
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Christopher Columbus (redirect from Admiral of the Ocean Sea)
Excerpts from the log of Christopher Columbus's first voyage The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery Columbus Monuments Pages (overview...
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Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized...
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Gomes Eanes de Zurara (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
modern conception of Prince Henry the Navigator and the Henrican age of Portuguese discoveries (although Zurara only covers part of it, the period 1434–1448)...
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Patria ("Altar of the Fatherland"), is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy...
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This list of Indian inventions and discoveries details the inventions, scientific discoveries and contributions of India, including those from the historic...
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Jardines del Descubrimiento (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
of Discovery) is a park in the Spanish city of Madrid, located next to the Plaza de Colón. Dedicated to the discovery of America, it has a monument in...
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Lüneburg (district) (redirect from District of Lüneburg)
Germany. The district is one of the core areas for monuments and archaeological discoveries from prehistory. Ernst Sprockhoff noted 17 sites west of the Ilmenau...
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Nicolau Coelho (category Portuguese explorers of South America)
off the coast of Mozambique) was an expert Portuguese navigator and explorer during the Age of Discovery. He participated in the discovery of the route...
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Pero Escobar (category 15th-century explorers of Africa)
Álvares Cabral's discovery of Brazil in 1500. In 1471, working in the service of Lisbon merchant Fernão Gomes, who had a concession for the exploration and...
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Pattadakal (redirect from Pattadakal Group of Monuments)
there are over 150 Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist monuments, and archaeological discoveries, dating from the 4th to 10th century CE, in addition to pre-historic...
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Monument au Fantôme (English: Monument to the Phantom) is an outdoor sculpture by French sculptor Jean Dubuffet, in 1977. It was originally inaugurated...
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Confederate monuments and memorials in the United States include public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders...
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Radium (redirect from Properties of radium)
mined at Jáchymov. They extracted the radium compound from uraninite and published the discovery at the French Academy of Sciences five days later. Radium...
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