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    The Monument of the Discoveries (Portuguese: Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Portuguese pronunciation: [pɐˈðɾɐ̃w duʒ ðɨʃkuβɾiˈmẽtuʃ]) is a monument on the...
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    main sections of display: history, ethnography, and the colonial world. A Monument of the Discoveries of Portugal Padrão dos Descobrimentos was designed by...
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    "Ferdinand Magellan | Biography, Voyage, Map, Accomplishments, Route, Discoveries, Death, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 28 December 2023....
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  • Descobrimentos, the Monument of the Discoveries This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Statue of Prince Henry the Navigator. If...
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    Navegador), was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion. Through...
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    Lisbon (redirect from Capital of Portugal)
    which the Torre de Belém was built partly to defend. Belém's most notable modern feature is the Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Monument to the Discoveries) built...
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    Nuno Gonçalves (category Painters at the Portuguese royal court)
    a monument to the Portuguese Age of Discovery in Belém, Lisbon. The only reference that art historians can use to support his authorship of the Saint...
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    beginning of the Age of Discovery, and the power and influence of the Kingdom of Portugal would eventually expand across the globe. In the wake of the Reconquista...
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    The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, a Founding Father of the United...
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    The Monument to Columbus (Spanish: Monumento a Colón), also known as Monument to the Discovering Faith (Spanish: Monumento a la Fe Descubridora), is a...
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  • The timeline below shows the date of publication of possible major scientific breakthroughs, theories and discoveries, along with the discoverer. This...
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    group called the Monuments Men. While this task force of art dealers and museum specialists were able to retrieve many of the stolen works of art, there...
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    Pero Escobar (category 15th-century explorers of Africa)
    Álvares Cabral's discovery of Brazil in 1500. In 1471, working in the service of Lisbon merchant Fernão Gomes, who had a concession for the exploration and...
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    associated with the earliest discoveries, such as the Madeira Islands, the Azores, the Canaries, and to the early exploration of the north west African...
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    Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized...
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    Belém, Lisbon (category Districts of Lisbon)
    Monument to the Discoveries (Portuguese: Padrão dos Descobrimentos) - located on the edge of the Tagus' northern bank, this 52 metre-high slab of concrete...
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    voyage The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery Columbus Monuments Pages (overview of monuments for Columbus all over the world)...
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    Gaspar Corte-Real (category Explorers of Canada)
    limitations: Some thoughts about the Corte-Real monument". CBC.ca. Retrieved 8 July 2020. "Controversial statue of Portuguese Corte-Real in Canada is...
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    Gomes Eanes de Zurara (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    modern conception of Prince Henry the Navigator and the Henrican age of Portuguese discoveries (although Zurara only covers part of it, the period 1434–1448)...
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  • This list of Indian inventions and discoveries details the inventions, scientific discoveries and contributions of India, including those from the historic...
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    Patria ("Altar of the Fatherland"), is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy...
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    Nicolau Coelho (category Portuguese explorers of South America)
    off the coast of Mozambique) was an expert Portuguese navigator and explorer during the Age of Discovery. He participated in the discovery of the route...
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    version 1563, original translation 1601], The Discoveries of the World, from Their First Original unto the Year of Our Lord 1555, Translated & edited by Richard...
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    Jardines del Descubrimiento (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    of Discovery) is a park in the Spanish city of Madrid , located next to the Plaza de Colón. Dedicated to the discovery of America, it has a monument in...
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    An egg of Columbus or Columbus's egg (Italian: uovo di Colombo [ˈwɔːvo di koˈlombo]) refers to a brilliant idea or discovery that seems simple or easy...
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  • Confederate monuments and memorials in the United States include public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders...
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    The Penshaw Monument (officially the Earl of Durham's Monument) is a memorial in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Penshaw Hill in the metropolitan...
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    Monument au Fantôme (English: Monument to the Phantom) is an outdoor sculpture by French sculptor Jean Dubuffet, in 1977. It was originally inaugurated...
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    there are over 150 Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist monuments, and archaeological discoveries, dating from the 4th to 10th century CE, in addition to pre-historic...
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    National Monument was a national monument in the U.S. state of South Dakota beginning in 1922. The site contained hundreds of fossils of the cycad-like...
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