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12 hours ago · Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that possible visits to the Americas, possible interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas—or both—were made by people from Africa, Asia, Europe, or Oceania prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492 (i.e., during ...
1 day ago · Phoenicia ( / fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə / ), [4] or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. [5] [6] The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their ...
12 hours ago · The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the Ortoiroid people before 430 BC. At the time of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1493, the dominant indigenous culture was that of the Taínos. The Taíno people's numbers went dangerously low during the later half of the 16th century because of new infectious diseases ...
12 hours ago · The Iranian Revolution ( Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn] ), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution ( انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī ), [4] was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
12 hours ago · Prince George, British Columbia. / 53.76306°N 122.74528°W / 53.76306; -122.74528. Prince George is a city in British Columbia, Canada, situated at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers. The city itself has a population of 76,708 [3]; the metro census agglomeration has a population of 89,490. [4]
12 hours ago · List of historic places in Vancouver. The following list includes all of the Canadian Register of Historic Places listings in Vancouver, British Columbia . / 49.283°N 123.102°W / 49.283; -123.102 ( 102 Powell Street) / 49.2859°N 123.135°W / 49.2859; -123.135 ( 1050 Nicola Street) / 49.2818°N 123.108°W / 49. ...
12 hours ago · 1934. Australia ( electronic television, experimental, Brisbane) [8] 1935. Germany ( intermediate film; semi-electronic), France (electronic - PTT Radio Vision ), Netherlands (electronic, experimental in Eindhoven by Philips) [7] 1936.
