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Крупнейшие испанские газеты Mundo, País, Vanguardia и Periódico опубликовали материалы, посвященные инциденту с британским военным кораблем у берегов... РИА Новости, 25.06.2021

  1572 (dated)         1 : 12900000 Description This is a scarce and important 1571 map of the world by Benedict Arias Montanus. Finely engraved and prepared for the eight-volume Plantin Polyglot Bible, this elegant map was intended to bring the new discoveries of the Americas into a coherent religious context. It further established the Native American population as Hebrew descendants of Noah, and thus Children of God whom the dedicatee of the Polyglot, Philip II of Spain, was obliged to convert. Although its alleged revelations of Australian geography have long been the map's ...

Life Sketch of John Donne Author: John Donne Anti-Catholicism in England John Donne was born to a wealthy Catholic family on June 19, 1572, at the time in world history when anti-Catholicism was gaining influence in England. John's father, John Donne, Sr., was a well-to-do ironworker. His mother was a relative of Sir Thomas More, and her father was John Heywood, the playwright. The future poet was only four years old when his father died in 1576, and his mother struggled to raise John and his two siblings by herself. John and his younger brother, Henry, began school at Hart Hall at Oxford U...

Antique Maps of the World. Gallery of authentic historic rare world maps from the 16th to the 19th centuries.