1493 On this day in history france cedes Roussillon & Cerdagne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona 1511 Mirandola surrenders to the French on January - 19. 1520 Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund on January - 19. 1544 Francis II...
In the following sections, we develop an understanding of the historical factors that have shaped Dominica’s development trajectory, focusing on the underlying economic vulnerabilities and physical exposure to hazards created by events and decisions taken during the colonial period, and their impact on...
such asUrbano Monte's manuscript world map from 1587. Visit the physical collection at theDavid Rumsey Map Centerat the Stanford University Library. Or take avirtual tourof the Map Center, which hosts events such as the recentBarry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography : Indigenous mapping....
The main reason to care about magic is that it was part of the world and mindset of the fencing masters, and it made it into their writing. Magic in the sense of spells, rituals and talismans, is found in theBellifortis(described by one scholar as “Saturated in astrology”) which hea...
unique concept that includes among other things five cultural representations of the Puerto Rico's history, which transports all of our visitors through historical and cultural events from the Spanish Conquest of 1493 to the 1898 when this lighthouse was built and the Spanish-American war occurred....
(1915–1998) along a 2700 m transect running from a dry lake bed to the foothills of a small mountain, we test two hypotheses: (i) that wetter winters and drier summers may have facilitated shrub encroachment in grasslands, and (ii) that increases in large precipitation events may have ...
Traditional classifications of cell death include necrosis and programmed cell death (PCD). Necrosis, a nonprogrammed form of cell death, is often caused by traumatic injury; PCD, a controlled form of cell death, results from a series of molecular events in response to various physiological or ...
As is well known, the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the invention of the modern printing press and the discovery of America are three great events that represent the beginning of modern science. Knowledge based on the explanation of natural phenomena through reason and experimentation ...
(1971–2020). The sources of the current data are the National Meteorological Administration of Romania and the European Climate Assessment & Dataset. The results show significant changes between the two periods. In the whole region, the mean temperature in the last five decades (1971–2020) was...
In March 1493, he sailed back to Spain leaving 40 of his men in La Natividad, the first Spanish settlement that he would later find devastated. A total of four voyages to the Caribbean were made by Columbus until 1504. He died two years after his fourth voyage. CELEBRATING COLUMBUS DAY ...