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1492: Conquest of Paradise is a 1992 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott, written by Roselyne Bosch and starring Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, and Sigourney Weaver. It portrays a version of the travels to the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the effect this had on indigenous peoples .
El Fureidis (Arabic for "Little Paradise") is a 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2) historic estate built in 1906 on 10 acres (4.0 ha) in Montecito, California. [1] Originally called the James Waldron Gillespie Estate or Gillespie Palace [2] after its original owner, the Spanish Baroque & Neo-Mudéjar architecture [3] is one of only five houses designed by the American architect Bertram Grosvenor ...
The Dark Hedges in 2016. The Dark Hedges is an avenue of beech trees along Bregagh Road between Armoy and Stranocum in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.The trees form an atmospheric tunnel that has been used as a location in HBO's popular television series Game of Thrones, which has resulted in the avenue becoming a popular tourist attraction.
Tree on the Island of Waqwaq. Golconda, early 17th-century. Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin. Talking trees are a form of sapient trees in mythologies and stories.. Ben Bryne initially [when?] said that in Greek mythology, all the trees in the Dodona (northwestern Greece, Epirus) grove (the forest beside the sanctuary of Zeus) became endowed with the gift of prophecy, and the oaks not only spoke ...
26th Street Pictures is an American film production company founded by Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe and Michael Barnathan in 1994 as 1492 Pictures. [1] The name is a play on Columbus's more famous namesake, Christopher Columbus , and his 1492 landing in the Americas . [ 2 ]
Rhinoceros horns across all species have gradually shrunk over the past century and hunting may be the likely cause, scientists believe. The findings, published in the journal People And Nature ...
The scientific community believe a small species of human known as homo floresiensis once lived on the island of Flores, Indonesia, around 50,000 years ago.But one professor thinks the apelike ...
Evidence of the latter would have been submerged by a sea-level rise of more than a hundred meters following the end of the Last Glacial Period. [14] The time range of the peopling of the Americas remains a source of substantial debate. Conventional estimates have it that humans reached North America at some point between 15,000 and 20,000 ...