Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map. The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt, Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I (r. 1512 ...
McIntosh, Gregory C. (2014). "The Piri Reis Map of 1513: Art and Literature in the Service of Science". Seapower, Technology, and Trade: Studies in Turkish Maritime History (Digital ed.). Istanbul: Piri Reis University. ISBN 978-9-94426-451-8.. McIntosh, Gregory C. (August 2015). "The Piri Reis Map of 1528: A Comparative Study with Other Maps ...
In the book The Piri Reis Map of 1513 Gregory C. McIntosh examines Hapgood's claims for both maps and states that "they fall short of proving or even strongly suggesting that the Piri Reis map and the Fine map depict the actual outline of Antarctica." [7] [8]
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The above products were branded UBD prior to the 2012 editions when production of standalone Gregory's street directories ceased in favour of cobranded UBD-Gregory's directories retaining the UBD format, UBD-Gregory's Darwin 2013, 4th edition. The last standalone Gregory's directory was the commemorative 75th Edition Sydney street directory ...
Mill Street 3,566 5 Place de la Mairie Town Hall Square 3,430 6 Rue du Château Castle Street 2,963 7 Rue des Écoles School Street 2,779 8 Rue de la Gare Station Street 2,771 9 Rue de la Mairie Town Hall Street 2,672 10 Rue Principale Main Street 2,452 11 Rue du Stade Stadium Street 2,421 12 Rue de la Fontaine Fountain Street 2,346 13 Rue Pasteur
As with "Broad Street" in various other towns and cities, the street was named for its breadth and laid out and developed as a central thoroughfare. Cecil B. Moore Avenue Named in honor of the late Philadelphia civil rights attorney Cecil B. Moore , who led the fight to integrate Girard College and was the president of the local NAACP and a ...
Gregory completed the building of the manor house on the site of the priory and lived there with his family from 1541 until his death in 1551. [7] [224] Gregory Cromwell was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Edward VI, on 20 February 1547. [5] [7] [225]