Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 Niña, was not the ship's actual name; La Niña's actual name was the Santa Clara.
Pinta was a series of racing yachts owned by German industrialist and yachtsman Willi Illbruck. Pinta raced for DYC (Düsseldorfer Yachtclub) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and KYC ( Kieler Yacht Club ). Willi Illbruck started sailing his first Pinta, a one-ton yacht, in 1969.
MTV Europe; MTV Hits; MTV Dance; MTV Rocks; MTV Live HD; VH1 Europe; VH1 Classic; My Music; IN TV; Supersonic TV; BBF TV; Folk Plus; TV Blue Sky; Tirana TV; Club TV ...
The Niña and Pinta sighted and rejoined one another 6 January 1493, [52] and, after a furious argument in which according to at least one witness, Pinzón objected to the 38 men being "left so far from Spain, being so few, because they could not be provided for and would be lost", and Columbus threatened to hang Pinzón, [51] the two ships ...
The main item of interest at the museum is the trio of replica ships: the Pinta, Niña, and Santa María. The replicas were fashioned in the fishing port of Isla Cristina in western Huelva province as part of the celebrations of the fifth centenary of the Discovery of the Americas, and were the principle motive to create the Wharf of the Caravels.
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
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
The Pinzón brothers were Spanish sailors, pirates, explorers and fishermen, natives of Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, Spain. Martín Alonso, Francisco Martín and Vicente Yáñez, participated in Christopher Columbus's first expedition to the New World [1] (generally considered to constitute the discovery of the Americas by Europeans) and in other voyages of discovery and exploration in the ...