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Viceroy of India — Vasco da Gama was appointed Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira shortly before his death
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Viceroy of India Vasco da Gama was appointed Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira shortly before his death
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Vasco da Gama landing at Calicut — T. H. Mannerhow Illustrated by Allan Stewart
Photo Credit: By T. H. Mannerhow Illustrated by Allan Stewart - Peeps At History, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25152164
Vasco da Gama landing at Calicut T. H. Mannerhow Illustrated by Allan Stewart
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Vasco da Gama Leaving Portugal — Mural by John Henry Amshewitz (1882-1942) in which Zacuto is shown presenting astronomical tables to da Gama onn his departure from Lisbon in 1497
Photo Credit: By John Henry Amshewitz - http://usm.maine.edu/ photograph by courtesy of the Archives of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19200847
Vasco da Gama Leaving Portugal Mural by John Henry Amshewitz (1882-1942) in which Zacuto is shown presenting astronomical tables to da Gama onn his departure from Lisbon in 1497
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L'éclipse de lune de Christophe Colomb — Columbus awes the Jamaican natives by predicting the lunar eclipse of 1504
Photo Credit: By Camille Flammarion - Astronomie Populaire 1879, p231 fig. 86, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3613218
L'éclipse de lune de Christophe Colomb Columbus awes the Jamaican natives by predicting the lunar eclipse of 1504
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Abraham ben Schmuel Zacuth
Photo Credit: Von Eulogia Merle - Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37026904
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Vasco da Gama — Portrait of a Knight Templar says Portrait of Vasco da Gama
Photo Credit: By Unknown master of the Portuguese School.. - Own work - Daniel Villafruela - 17 September 2014, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38093477
Vasco da Gama Portrait of a Knight Templar says Portrait of Vasco da Gama
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Diaz on his Voyage to the Cape — 1887 illustration of Bartolomeu Dias' two caravels: The São Cristóvão and the São Pantaleão.
Photo Credit: By Frederick Whymper - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41115795
Diaz on his Voyage to the Cape 1887 illustration of Bartolomeu Dias' two caravels: The São Cristóvão and the São Pantaleão.
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Bartolomeu Dias — cropped from photo of Statue of Bartolomeu Dias at the High Commission of South Africa in London
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Bartolomeu Dias cropped from photo of Statue of Bartolomeu Dias at the High Commission of South Africa in London
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Death of Columbus — lithograph by L. Prang & Co., 1893
Photo Credit: By L. Prang & Co. - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b49586/http://nobility.org/2011/10/10/admiral-knighted-duke-of-veraguas/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17318822
Death of Columbus lithograph by L. Prang & Co., 1893
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Landing of Columbus (12 October 1492) — Columbus raises the royal banner of Isabella and Ferdinand on the island he was to name San Salvador
Photo Credit: By John Vanderlyn - Architect of the Capitol, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1380997By John Vanderlyn - Architect of the Capitol, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1380997
Landing of Columbus (12 October 1492) Columbus raises the royal banner of Isabella and Ferdinand on the island he was to name San Salvador
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Niña, Pinta, & Santa Maria — Replicas of the Caravels Pinta, Niña and the carrack Santa Maria. Lying in the North River, New York. The two caravels and the carrack which crossed from Spain to be present at the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World
Photo Credit: By E. Benjamin Andrews - Andrews, E. Benjamin. History of the United States, volume V. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1912., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1718649
Niña, Pinta, & Santa Maria Replicas of the Caravels Pinta, Niña and the carrack Santa Maria. Lying in the North River, New York. The two caravels and the carrack which crossed from Spain to be present at the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World