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The owner of La Pinta was Cristóbal Quintero. The Quintero brothers were ship owners from Palos. The owner of the ship allowed Martín Alonso Pinzón to take over the ship so he could keep an eye on it. La Pinta was a caravel-type vessel. By tradition Spanish ships were named after saints and usually given nicknames. Thus, La Pinta, like La ...
(in Spanish) Adám Szászdi: El descubrimiento de Puerto Rico en 1492 por Martín Alonso Pinzón, in: Revista de historia. San Juan, Año 1(1985), Nr. 2, S. 9-45. (in Spanish) Domingo Gómez: Vindicación del piloto de la carabela "Pinta", Martín Alonso Pinzón, in: Mundi hispánico. - Madrid, Año 21(1968), Nr. 241.
Pinto or Pinta is a member of a Chicano subculture of people who are or have been incarcerated. It is an in-group moniker used to distinguish oneself from the general prison population or from "model inmates." It is a term which embraces the oppositional elements of being a Convicto. [1]
Niña, like Pinta and Santa María, was a smaller trade ship built to sail the Mediterranean sea, not the open ocean. It was greatly surpassed in size by ships like Peter von Danzig of the Hanseatic League , built in 1462, 51 m (167 ft) in length, and the English carrack Grace Dieu , built during the period 1420–1439, weighing between 1,400 ...
Satellite image of Pinta Island. The elongated island of Pinta is the northernmost of the active Galápagos volcanoes. Pinta is a shield volcano with an extensive underwater footprint originating from NNW-trending fissures. [4] It has an area of 60 km 2 (23 sq mi) and a maximum altitude of 777 meters (2,549 ft). [5]
Pinta Art Show annually exhibits modern and contemporary artworks from Latin American artists in international settings. Based in New York City, the art fair also travels to London, allowing visitors, galleries, artists, collectors, curators, and cultural institutions to strengthen their existing knowledge and develop new connections with the Latin American art world.
La Pintada (Spanish pronunciation: [la pinˈtaða]); is a town and municipality in the southwest region of the Antioquia Department of Colombia. It is located 79 miles from Medellín at an altitude of 600 m (2,000 ft) above sea level. It borders the Fredonia and Santa Bárbara municipalities to the north. The Cauca River flows through the ...
Pinta, yachts owned by Willi Illbruck; Pinta (disease), a skin disease caused by Treponema carateum; Pinta Island (also known as Abington Island) in the Galapagos Islands; Pinta (software), a Paint.NET-like image drawing and editing program; Pinta, slang for pint of milk after the Drinka pinta milka day advertising slogan