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Tripadvisor, Inc. is an American company that operates online travel agencies, comparison shopping websites, and mobile apps with user-generated content. [1]Its namesake brand, Tripadvisor.com, operates in 40 countries and 20 languages, and features approximately 1 billion reviews and opinions on roughly 8 million establishments. [1]
Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail (6 April 1856 – 23 March 1929) was a French general of the First World War. [1] Sarrail's openly socialist political connections made him a rarity amongst the Catholics, conservatives and monarchists who dominated the French Army officer corps under the Third Republic before the war, and were the main reason why he was appointed to command at Salonika.
Leopold Mozart, c. 1765. In a letter to his friend and landlord Johann Lorenz Hagenauer (1712–1792), a prominent Salzburg merchant, written after the tour, Leopold quotes the German diplomat Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, who after hearing the children play had said: "Now for once in my life I have seen a miracle: this is the first". [15]
A c. 1760 painting of James Grant, John Mytton, Thomas Robinson and Thomas Wynne on the Grand Tour by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member ...
From 1525, the island was featured on Spanish maps as Curaçote, Curasaote, Curasaore, and even Curacaute. [18] By the 17th century, it appeared on most maps as Curaçao or Curazao. [ 17 ] On a map created by Hieronymus Cock in 1562 in Antwerp , the island was called Qúracao .
The next Europe-focused map was published by cartographer Johannes Putsch from Innsbruck in 1537, at the beginning of the Early Modern Age. [ 4 ] The Putsch-map was the first to depict Europe as an Europa regina , [ 5 ] [ 4 ] [ 6 ] with the European regions forming a female human shape with crown , sceptre and globus cruciger . [ 4 ]
Map of the Bosnian Eastern Railway, from the 1908 book by Milena Mrazović A freight train in 1970. Bosnische Ostbahn (Bosanska istočna pruga) 166.4 km, built 1906. [9] Sarajevo – Pale – Prača - Ustiprača – Međeđa – Uvac 137.6 km (Serbian border); Extension Uvac - Priboj, Serbia (built 1929). This line is connected to the Bosna ...
Barcelona (/ ˌ b ɑːr s ə ˈ l oʊ n ə / ⓘ BAR-sə-LOH-nə; Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə] ⓘ; Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona] ⓘ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain.