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Picos de Europa: a naturalist's paradise iberianwildlife.com; Sistema del Hito / Xitu caves oucc.org.uk, Oxford University Cave Club Proceedings 10 : 1980-1981. El Anillo de Picos - Recorrido circular por los Picos de Europa elanillodepicos.com (Spanish /English) Hiking in the park, routes & information
In classical Greek mythology, Europa (Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē) was a Phoenician princess. One view is that her name derives from the Ancient Greek elements εὐρύς ( eurús ) 'wide, broad', and ὤψ ( ōps , gen. ὠπός , ōpós ) 'eye, face, countenance', hence their composite Eurṓpē would mean 'wide-gazing' or ...
The map of Juan de la Cosa is a world map that includes the earliest known representation of the New World and the first depiction of the equator and the Tropic of Cancer on a nautical chart. The map is attributed to the Castilian navigator and cartographer, Juan de la Cosa , and was likely created in 1500.
As most surviving zonal maps are found illustrating Macrobius' Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio (an excerpt of Cicero's De Re Publica), this type of map is sometimes called "Macrobian". In their simplest and most common form, Zonal mappae mundi are merely circles divided into five parallel zones, but several larger zonal maps with much ...
Europa regina in Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographia". Europa regina, Latin for "Queen Europe", is the map-like depiction of the European continent as a queen. [1] [2] Made popular in the 16th century, the map shows Europe as a young and graceful woman wearing imperial regalia. The Iberian Peninsula (Hispania) is the head, wearing a hoop crown.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday accused Hamas of backing out of a cease-fire deal to release hostages and bring a pause to more than a year of fighting.
Todd McLellan has been with the Red Wings before. He was an assistant with the Red Wings from 2005-08, overseeing the team's forwards and the power play.The Red Wings won the Stanley Cup title in ...
The rhumb-line construction scheme and geographic lines in the Cantino planisphere. Adapted from Gaspar (2012), Plate 3. The Cantino planisphere is the earliest extant example of the so-called latitude chart, which was developed following the introduction of astronomical navigation, during the second half of the fifteenth century.