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Map of North America from 1566 showing Italian inscriptions, both Terra In Cognita and Mare In Cognito. Terra incognita or terra ignota (Latin "unknown land"; incognita is stressed on its second syllable in Latin, but with variation in pronunciation in English) is a term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or documented.
Liste der Countys in Texas; Anderson County (Texas) Palestine (Texas) Vorlage:Navigationsleiste Orte im Anderson County (Texas) Usage on el.wikipedia.org Κομητεία Άντερσον (Τέξας) Usage on eo.wikipedia.org Kantono Anderson (Teksaso) Usage on es.wikipedia.org Condado de Anderson (Texas) Categoría:Condado de Anderson (Texas)
In 1845, Vice President Kenneth Lewis Anderson of the Republic of Texas, after whom the town is named, died while staying at the inn. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department acquired the property in 1977 and, opened the site to the public in 1987 as a demonstration of life at a stagecoach stop and family home in 1850. [14] [20] [21] B. B ...
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
The configuration of the map, with the world Ocean, under the names occeanus meridionalis and indicum mare, enclosed by the three classical continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, and the New World including the austral terra incognita, was apparently drawn from the description of the world given by Duarte Pacheco Pereira in 1508 and set out in ...
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Terra incognita is a Latin phrase meaning 'unknown land', describing regions that have not been mapped or documented. Terra incognita may also refer to: Terra Incognita (Gojira album) Terra Incognita (Juliette Lewis album), 2009; Terra Incognita (Chris Whitley album), Terra Incognita: Ambient Works 1975 to Present, a compilation of Boyd Rice music
The text Hic Sunt Dracones on the Hunt–Lenox Globe, dating from 1504 "Here be dragons" (Latin: hic sunt dracones) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.