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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]
One Superior Place is a 502 ft (153m) tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It was constructed between 1998 and 1999 and has 52 floors. [1] The building was designed by Loewenberg + Associates, and it is tied with 10 South LaSalle as the 87th tallest building in Chicago. The property is managed by Greystar Real Estate Partners.
The St. Regis Chicago, a condominium/hotel combination that is now the third tallest building in Chicago, began construction in August 2016 and was completed in 2020. [ 27 ] Lakeshore East is a venture of Magellan Development Group LLC, a recently formed corporate partnership culminating a long-term collaboration between Magellan Development ...
212 West Washington Bell Building. 1912 [49] 20 [49] Yes 208 West Washington Morton Building. 1927 [50] 21 [50] Yes 188 West Washington 1980 [51] 1 [51] No [51] 180 West Washington Equitable Building 1927 [52] 12 [52] Yes 176 West Washington Elks Club Building 1917 [53] 14 [53] Yes 175 West Washington Chicago Federation of Musicians Building ...
Hull House, the first settlement house in Chicago. This is a list of settlement houses in Chicago.. Settlement houses, which reached their peak popularity in the early 20th century, were marked by a residential approach to social work: the social workers ("residents") would live in the settlement house, and thus be a part of the same communities as the people they served.
The Sheffield Historic District is a national historic district in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.The district is primarily a residential area, though it also includes multiple small commercial areas.