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Oct 5, 2012 · Born by the sea. Born in 1451 to Domenico and Susanna (Fontanarossa), young Christopher grew up in Genoa, Italy. While living in Spain in later years, he went by Cristóbal Colón rather than his ...
Feb 24, 2015 · Indos are people of mixed Dutch-Indonesian descent, whose history can be traced to the Netherlands’ 300-year colonization of Indonesia (Dutch East Indies). As an “in-between” people, Indos were accorded the privileges of a Dutch colonial class situated above the native Indonesians, but placed below Europeans in terms of status. Despite their Dutch citizenship, the Indos were often ...
The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
Jan 1, 2016 · There are very few empirical studies of the so-called ‘comfort women’ system during the Japanese Occupation of the Netherlands East Indies (1942–1945). So-called ‘comfort’ facilities were diverse, including ‘movie theatres, bars, restaurants, hotels and comfort stations’ (Horton, 2010, p. 186). Often hotels and old-style Dutch ...
The Dutch East Indies (c. 1600 – 1942) was part of a vast Dutch trading empire ( Nederlands-koloniale Rijk) which stretched across the world. In the 1400s- 1600s CE, the Spanish, (including Columbus), Portuguese, Arab, English and Dutch traders were all keen to exploit the natural resources of islands in the south-east Asian archipelago and ...
The idea of flying an aircraft was repulsive to some people. Such people called Wilbur and Orville Wright, the inventors of the first flying machine, impulsive fools. Negative reactions, however, did not stop the Wrights. Impelled by their desire to succeed, they continued their experiments in aviation.
10. Juan Sebastián Elcano (c. 1476-1526) Following Magellan’s death, the Basque explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano took command of the expedition. His ship ‘the Victoria’ reached Spanish shores in September 1522, completing the navigation. Of the 270 men who left with the Mangellan-Elcano expedition, only 18 Europeans returned alive.
