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Map of the Azores Islands (1584) by Abraham Ortelius. The following article describes the history of the Azores, an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about 1,400 km (870 mi) west of Lisbon, about 1,500 km (930 mi) northwest of Morocco, and about 1,930 km (1,200 mi) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Gaspar Frutuoso wrote Saudades da Terra, the first history of the Azores and Macaronesia, in the 1580s.. A small number of alleged hypogea (underground structures carved into rocks) have been identified on the islands of Corvo, Santa Maria, and Terceira by Portuguese archaeologist Nuno Ribeiro, who speculated that they might date back 2,000 years, implying a human presence on the island before ...
Barreiro da Faneca, along with other clayey areas of the island, is part of the geological formation known as the Feteiras Formation, the last series of volcanic eruptions on Santa Maria, the oldest island in the Azores. These clays were initially basalts formed during the Pliocene (approximately 3-4 million years ago) which were then covered ...
Because none of the Macaronesian islands were ever part of any continent, all of the native plants and animals reached the islands via long-distance dispersal. Laurel-leaved forests , called laurisilva , once covered most of the Azores, Madeira, and parts of the Canaries at an altitude of between 400 and 1,200 metres (1,300 and 3,900 ft), the ...
The Azores temperate mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion of southwestern Europe. It encompasses the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. These volcanic islands are an autonomous region of Portugal , and lie 1500 km west of the Portuguese mainland.
It’s called a “seed” and is usually around 0.3 to 0.6 millimeters thick. (2DOT4 makes its own seeds from the diamonds grown in-house.) Placed inside a reactor, the seed is exposed to gases ...
The stone was first documented as being owned by Black, Starr & Frost. Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a Ziegfeld Follies performer noted for her marriages and affairs with wealthy men, acquired it in February 1928, for a $350,000 pearl necklace and $23,000 in cash. Joyce had it mounted on a short platinum choker. Winston bought the diamond from Joyce in ...
She found that the X's "were once part of a top-secret government program called CORONA — the nation's first reconnaissance satellite program," according to NPR.