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Marcos de Niza, OFM (or Marco da Nizza; c. 1495 – 25 March 1558) was a Franciscan friar and missionary from the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy. Marcos led the first Spanish expedition to explore what is now the American Southwest. His report of finding a "beautiful city", "more extensive than that of Mexico [City]", [ 1] induced Viceroy ...
Gymnasium. Nika Mühl ( / mjuːl / MYOOL; born 9 April 2001) is a Croatian professional basketball player for the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball as a point guard for the UConn Huskies. [ 1] Twice named Big East Conference Defensive Player of the Year while in college, Mühl is ...
Danika McGuigan (4 January 1986 – 23 July 2019) was an actress, born in Northern Ireland and raised in England. [ 1] She was known for her role as Danielle Mullane in Can't Cope, Won't Cope (2016–2018). She was posthumously awarded Best Actress at the 2021 IFTA Awards for her final role in Wildfire (2020). [ 2][ 3] Her previous films ...
Nika Shakarami was born on 2 October 2005 [4] in Khorramabad, Lorestan province, to a Lur family. [5] [6] Little is publicly known of her background. [7] She had family ties to Khorramabad in southwestern Iran, [7] the city having been her father's hometown. [4] She was the second child in the family. [5]
Nika's space is limited to an ordinary Moscow courtyard – a sandpit and a log hut for children's games, a barstool on which carpets were beaten out, a strange plague frame welded from metal pipes, a garbage dump and lanterns. Nicky's space is enlarged by the nearby forest, in which she loved to walk alone. [ 8]
The Nika riots ( Greek: Στάσις τοῦ Νίκα, romanized : Stásis toû Níka ), Nika revolt or Nika sedition took place against Byzantine emperor Justinian I in Constantinople over the course of a week in 532 CE. They are often regarded as the most violent riots in the city's history, with nearly half of Constantinople being burned or ...
Marco Polo ( / ˈmɑːrkoʊ ˈpoʊloʊ / ⓘ, Venetian: [ˈmaɾko ˈpolo], Italian: [ˈmarko ˈpɔːlo] ⓘ; c. 1254 – 8 January 1324) [ 1] was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. [ 2][ 3] His travels are recorded in The Travels of Marco Polo (also known as Book of the ...
Frangula alnus, commonly known as alder buckthorn, glossy buckthorn, or breaking buckthorn, is a tall deciduous shrub in the family Rhamnaceae. Unlike other "buckthorns", alder buckthorn does not have thorns. It is native to Europe, northernmost Africa, and western Asia, from Ireland and Great Britain north to the 68th parallel in Scandinavia ...