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4 days ago · Cabeza de Vaca (1991) Vote. Reply. Award. Movies about the European Age of Discovery/exploration. Explorers of major or minor European Sea faring nations, maybe Christopher Colombus….
4 days ago · The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
4 days ago · Abulafia cites a famous and revealing passage by a boastful Italian gentleman and friend of Christopher Columbus, Michele da Cuneo, in which the Italian was ‘granted’ by Columbus a gorgeous naked Cannibal woman.
2 days ago · Christopher Columbus, the first European to reach the island, named it after St. Vincent of Saragossa (San Vicente de Zaragoza) whose feast day was on the day Columbus first saw it (22 January 1498). The name of the Grenadines refers to the Spanish city of Granada , but to differentiate it from the island of the same name , the ...
4 days ago · When the Genoese, Christopher Columbus, serving under the Spanish crown, opened the maritime route towards the “Americas” by sailing west through the Atlantic, the Portuguese sailor, Vasco da Gama, made for India, also through the Atlantic but heading south.
3 days ago · Leif Erikson was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He was the first known European to have discovered continental North America (excluding Greenland), before Christopher Columbus (or possibly Saint Brendan).
5 days ago · Now that Star Trek: Discovery has wrapped up, fans are curious whether Captain Michael Burnham and the USS Discovery will return for a sixth season, or possibly a streaming movie on Paramount+. A still from Star Trek: Discovery (image credit: CBS)
