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    Philippines, and stopping in New Zealand, Australia, and Tonga. Malaspina was christened Alessandro, the Italian form of Alexander. He signed his letters in...
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    surrendered and scuttled by the United States Navy in Kii Suido. Alessandro Malaspina (pennant number MP) was launched 18 February 1940 and completed on...
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    to Big Glacier. The colonial name for the glacier is in honor of Alessandro Malaspina, a Tuscan explorer in the service of the Spanish Navy, who visited...
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    the death of her father, Malaspina lived with her mother in Florence and had a number of lovers, including young Duke Alessandro de' Medici himself. Her...
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    The House of Malaspina was a noble Italian family of Longobard origin that descended from Boniface I, through the Obertenghi line, that ruled Lunigiana...
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  • Oliviero Malaspina (1961), Italian poet and musician. Places and objects, mostly named after Alessandro Malaspina Malaspina Glacier, Alaska. Malaspina Inlet...
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    Marine Highway System. Malaspina is named after the Malaspina Glacier, which, in turn, is named after Captain Don Alessandro Malaspina, an Italian navigator...
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    "Puerto del Desengano", Spanish for "bay of disenchantment", by Alessandro Malaspina in 1792, upon finding that the bay was not the entrance to the legendary...
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    enrolled its first students in September 1969 as Malaspina College, named after Captain Alessandro Malaspina, who explored Vancouver Island. Registration...
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    scenes of Tlingit daily life. Malaspina Glacier, between Yakutat Bay and Icy Bay was subsequently named after Alessandro Malaspina. In 1792 Dionisio Alcalá...
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    1920. In February 1787, the frigate Astrea under the command of Alessandro Malaspina called at Talcahuano, the port of Concepcion, in the course of a...
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    Santiago on October 21, 1784. At that time he planned with his comrade Alessandro Malaspina, one of the singular characters of his time, a scientific journey...
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    daughter of Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence and his mistress Taddea Malaspina. Following her father's assassination, she was reared at the court of...
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    Florence. Alessandro was survived by two illegitimate children: son Giulio (aged four at the time of his father's death) married to Angelica Malaspina, and...
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  • Obertenghi family and a well-known ancestor to the Este, Pallavicini and Malaspina family. Adalberto was elevated to the nobiliary title of "Visconte" in...
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    Tonti (1649–1704) Andrea Doria (1466–1560) Eusebio Kino (1645–1711) Alessandro Malaspina (1754–1810) Lancelotto Malocello (1269–1335) Reinhold Messner (born...
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  • 1859 by Captain George Henry Richards of the Plumper in honour of Alessandro Malaspina, an Italian noble who commanded one of the exploration ships during...
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    Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina (29 June 1725 – 29 December 1790) was sovereign Duchess of Massa and Princess of Carrara from 1731 until her death in 1790...
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    territory. The Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, with Alessandro Malaspina and others sailing for Spain, came too late for Spain to assert its...
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  • Luciano Basadonna Editore. Giorgio fiori, i malaspina, tipleco, piacenza 1995. Giorgio fiori, i malaspina, tipleco, piacenza 1995. Luciano Chiappini,...
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  • Like Malaspina Strait and the Malaspina Glacier further north in Alaska, the peninsula was named for Alessandro Malaspina, an Italian of noble birth in...
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    virtually no scurvy was that of the Spanish naval officer Alessandro Malaspina, 1789–1794. Malaspina's medical officer, Pedro González, was convinced that fresh...
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    It was named in 1791 by Alessandro Malaspina for Thaddäus Haenke, who was serving as botanist and naturalist with Malaspina's expedition. The island is...
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    canal after construction. During an expedition from 1788 to 1793, Alessandro Malaspina outlined plans for construction of a canal. Numerous canals were...
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    1777; Spanish Navy explorers Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa in 1781; Alessandro Malaspina in 1793; the first London missionaries in 1797; and a Wesleyan Methodist...
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    with Malaspina Glacier which is named in honor of Alessandro Malaspina, an Italian navigator and explorer in the service of Spain, whose Malaspina Expedition...
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    Island. The expedition returned to Nootka Sound by August 1791. Alessandro Malaspina, sailing for Spain, explored and mapped the coast from Yakutat Bay...
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    the Maritime Fur Trade between the Pacific Northwest and China. Alessandro Malaspina (Spanish); 1786–1788. Archibald Menzies (British); 1786–1789 Robert...
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    greatly augmented by a collection of 10,000 plants brought to Spain by Alessandro Malaspina in 1794. The Spanish War of Independence in 1808 caused the garden...
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    "Santa Rosa" in 1779 by Don Ignacio Artega, "Español" in 1791 by Alessandro Malaspina, and "Punta de Canas," meaning "point of reeds," in 1796, by T.M...
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