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One hundred years later, environmentalists defending the nearby village of Nerva referred to 1888 as the "year of shots", in their protests against the provincial government's plans to site a large waste dump in a disused mine in the 1990s. [31] The local football club, Recreativo de Huelva was founded in 1889 by workers of Rio Tinto Group.
Tuvaluan man in traditional costume drawn by Alfred Agate in 1841 during the United States Exploring Expedition.. Tuvalu was first sighted by Europeans on 16 January 1568, during the voyage of Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Spanish explorer and cartographer, who sailed past the island of Nui, and charted it as Isla de Jesús (Spanish for "Island of Jesus").
The paper was bought in 1887 by Alice Anne Cornwell, who had made a fortune in mining in Australia and by floating the Midas Mine Company on the London Stock Exchange. She bought the paper to promote her new company, The British and Australasian Mining Investment Company, and as a gift to her lover Phil Robinson .
Virtual Fixtures – first AR system, U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (1992). Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated 3D content.