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King Charles III of Spain and his successors sent several expeditions from New Spain to present-day Canada and Alaska between 1774 and 1793 to strengthen the Spanish claims. These efforts would eventually come to naught when Spanish claims in the region were ceded to the American government in the 1819 Adams–Onís Treaty .
Vigo (Galician:, locally; Spanish: ⓘ) is a city and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, within the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.Located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits on the southern shore of an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, the Ria de Vigo, the southernmost of the Rías Baixas.
By the late seventies, the industrial port city of Vigo suffered high levels of youth unemployment and a massive, industrial reform of the naval sector. Born out of this context, the Movida viguesa was primarily a musical and aesthetic movement: a counterculture centered around nightlife and bars in the historic city center.
The women listed below are or were explorers or world travelers. They include naturalists, sailors, mountain climbers, dog sledders, swimmers, pilots, and underwater explorers. Astronauts are not included here but in the list of women astronauts.
Whether you travel frequently or once a year, it can be difficult to determine which places are worth visiting. To help you narrow down your list (or discover something new), Business Insider ...
Pages in category "History of women in Alaska" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), whose 19th-century published history of Alaska, part of a larger series, formed an important foundation for later study of Alaskan history; Alexander Baranof (1746–1819) Vitus Bering (1681–1741), made the first recorded European sighting of Alaska
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