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Martín Cortés de Albacar (1510–1582) was a Spanish cosmographer. [1] In 1551 he published the standard navigational textbook Arte de navegar (also known as Breve compendio). [2] A decade later (1561), Arte de navegar became the earliest known English navigation manual up to date with all of the strategies used at the time. [3]
Chelo García-Cortés's mother died in 1962, when she was only eleven, and she was raised by her father, Rafael García-Cortés Alonso (1916–2001). [10] She has one brother, Mariano García-Cortés Cadavid, who is a photographer.
Lady of Guardamar (Dama de Guardamar), is a limestone female bust, 50 centimetres (20 in) high, dated c. 400-370 BC, that was discovered in fragments in the Phoenician archaeological site of Cabezo Lucero in Guardamar del Segura in Alicante province, Spain, on September 22, 1987.
Arena told BI that Uruguay is a hot spot for art and culture. "There are many museums and galleries to choose from throughout the Punta del Este, Montevideo, and Colonia del Sacramento regions in ...
In April 1519, Hernán Cortés, a nobleman recently landed in present-day Cuba and the leader of the third Spanish expedition to the coast of what is known as Mexico, landed at San Juan de Ulúa, a high-quality harbour on Mexico's east coast, with 508 soldiers, 100 sailors, and 14 small cannons.
The Village People’s lyricist and lead singer has hit out at the “false assumption” that the band’s biggest hit, “YMCA,” is a “gay anthem.”
It was found on July 22, 1971, by Francisco José Presedo Velo, in Baza, in the Altiplano de Granada, the high tableland in the northeast of the province of Granada.The town of Baza was the site of the Ibero-Roman city of Basti and, in one of its two necropoleis, the Cerro del Santuario, the Lady of Baza was recovered.
Republican President-elect Donald Trump has promised to grant clemency to at least some of his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in a failed bid to block Congress from ...