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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 ...
In the book The Piri Reis Map of 1513 Gregory C. McIntosh examines Hapgood's claims for both maps and states ... (1947–1952), Keene State College (1956–1966 ...
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 ...
Potomac State College of West Virginia University (Potomac State College or Potomac State) (community college; in addition to associate's degrees, offers a bachelor's degree program) West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech or West Virginia Tech) West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine; West Virginia State University (WVSU)
McIntosh-Goodrich Mansion: McIntosh-Goodrich Mansion: August 31, 2000 : 1584 N. Prospect Ave. 1904 Classical revival-styled mansion, designed by architect H.R. Wilson for Charles McIntosh, a leader of J.I. Case and Milwaukee Harvester. Later William and Marie Goodrich lived there, and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music since the 1930s.
The Athenaeum of Ohio – Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West, originally St. Francis Xavier Seminary, is a Catholic seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio.It is the third-oldest Catholic seminary in the United States and was established by Edward Fenwick, the first Bishop of Cincinnati, in 1829 [2] along with The Athenaeum (later Xavier University and St. Xavier High School), which opened in 1831 in ...
Before the constitution of the state of Iraq, the term "Iraq arabi" referred to the region around Baghdad and Basra. [ 239 ] Mesopotamia (ancient name and Greek variant): a loan-translation (Greek meso- (between) and potamos (river), meaning "Between the Rivers") of the ancient Semitic Bein-Al Nahrein , "Land of two Rivers", referring to the ...
Sugar Land State Prison Airfield; Tarrant Naval Outlying Landing Field / Arlington Naval Outlying Landing Field / OLF 25811 (Arlington) Terry County Air Force Auxiliary Airfield / Reese Air Force Auxiliary Airfield (Sundown) Tim's Airpark / Austin Executive Airpark; U & S Flying Service Airfield / Hamilton Field (Big Spring)