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- Henry the Navigator (1394 - 1460) was the third son of John I of Portugal ... do Infante on the Sagres Peninsula a school of navigators and map-makers, ...10 KB (1,543 words) - 15:52, 15 July 2024
- Sir Henry Morton Stanley, also known as Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks ... now HM Stanley Hospital, St Asaph) until the age of 15. After completing an ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 11:06, 14 July 2024
- and the Royal Geographic Expedition of 1977-1978, with more than 100 ... primary focus has shifted to the promotion of an awareness of the significance ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 21:21, 21 June 2024
- was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology ... several occasions, and living the last years of his life in Jerusalem. He was ...13 KB (1,892 words) - 16:43, 13 May 2024
- Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful ... Commissioned by King Manuel I of Portugal to find Christian lands ...13 KB (2,082 words) - 14:38, 3 May 2023
- and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of cosmonautics, who spent most ... in a middle-class family as the fifth of eighteen children. His father ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 22:37, 3 March 2025
- The Minaret of Jam is located in the Shahrak District, Ghor Province ... , had been built entirely of baked-bricks. Robert Hillenbrand, Islamic ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 12:53, 31 May 2025
- D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific ... Geographic Magazine has, through its use of photojournalism and quality ...17 KB (2,336 words) - 21:10, 30 June 2025
- Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications ... A spacecraft includes a variety of subsystems, dependent upon mission ...18 KB (2,454 words) - 19:05, 7 February 2023
- Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous material covering solid ... need to take into consideration the type of regolith present at construction ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 03:04, 8 December 2022
- European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- was an English soldier and seaman, and one of the most colorful and important ... Unlike the founding of the Plymouth colony by religious dissenters ...17 KB (2,650 words) - 03:40, 31 January 2025
- The Science Museum (London) is one of many major science museums in ... on experience for items appropriate to their age groups. The Museum has well ...12 KB (1,758 words) - 05:53, 28 November 2025
- 1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... His career was set in the context of the early days of the European ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 11:45, 2 June 2025
- [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 21:09, 30 June 2025
- Gestalt school. He is considered to be one of social psychology's pre ... Heider's theoretical position began from the concept of what ...14 KB (2,033 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- whose writings in the 1920s sparked a surge of interest in the subject of ... Oberth was the son of Dr. Julius Oberth, the head of a Saxon family ...12 KB (1,920 words) - 14:00, 16 July 2024
- The Nanda Devi National Park, a national park situated around the ... , located in the state of Uttarakhand in northern India. The park ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 12:28, 2 June 2025
- is located in the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert and occupies ... Libya into northwestern Sudan. A group of oases enables the cultivation ...13 KB (2,064 words) - 20:57, 11 March 2025
- The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos) was a tower built in the third ... Great, it was home to a significant number of Greeks and Jews. It was renowned ...9 KB (1,516 words) - 23:29, 11 March 2025
