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Do it for Denmark is a Danish media and advertising campaign designed to increase the birth rate of the nation. The campaign, launched by the Danish travel agency Spies Rejser [], is a tongue-in-cheek attempt to lure Danes to book holidays as a way to stop a purported population decline in Denmark.
Sveti Martin na Muri, Croatia [35] 6-hour run: 83.323 km Mirjana Šimek Bilić: 9 November 2024 Croatian 6 & 12-hour run Championships Zagreb, Croatia [36] 12-hour run: 138.755 km Ines Jozić: 12 November 2022 Zagreb, Croatia 24-hour run: 238.032 km Paula Vrdoljak: 18 September 2022 Verona, Italy 100 m hurdles: 12.85 (+0.1 m/s) Andrea ...
Dr. Gama (Portuguese: Doutor Gama) is a 2021 Brazilian biographical drama film directed by Jeferson De and produced by Paranoid Filmes, with Globo Filmes and Buda Filmes as associate producers. With script by Luiz Antonio, it tells the story of journalist, poet, and jurist Luís Gama and is starred by César Mello [ pt ] , Ângelo Fernandes ...
Gaspar da Gama, also known as Gaspar da India and Gaspar de Almeida (c. 1444 – c. 1510), was an interpreter (língua in old Portuguese) and guide to several Portuguese exploratory fleets. He was of Jewish origin and was probably born in Poznań in the Kingdom of Poland.
João da Gama (c. 1540 – after 1591) was a Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator in the Far East in the last quarter of the 16th century. He was the grandson of Vasco da Gama. João da Gama sailed from Macau to northeast and rounded Japan by north. He crossed the Pacific Ocean at the northernmost latitudes taken until then by Europeans.
During the second half of the century, possibly around 1555, she published the work Ditos da Freira - Ditos Diversos Feitos por uma Freira da Terceira Regra, Nos Quais se Contêm Sentenças Mui Notáveis e Avisos Necessários, (Sayings of the Nun - Various Sayings Made by a Nun of the Third Rule, which contain Very Notable Sentences and Necessary Notices), copies of which have survived to the ...
Pedro Álvares Cabral led the largest fleet in the Portuguese fleet on a mission to Calicut, India, where Vasco da Gama had opened a sea route two years prior. Many historians have debated on the authenticity of this discovery; some have reason to believe that Portugal had prior knowledge of Brazil's existence. [ 1 ]
Vasco da Gama's first armada had visited Calicut in 1498, but had failed to impress the elderly ruling Manivikraman Raja ('Samoothiri Raja'), the Zamorin of Calicut. As such, no agreements had been signed. Cabral's instructions were to succeed where da Gama had not, and to this end was entrusted with magnificent gifts to present to the Zamorin.