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19 November 2012
The Greek Charts of Piri Re'is
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Athens. All images are taken from Piri Reis and His Charts by Mine Esiner Özen (1998). The most down-loaded images i...
29 October 2012
Cretan Defenses, 1502
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Crete, by Piri Re'is From July 1500 through August 1502, Bartolomeo Minio was Venetian captain of Crete, which meant that he had...
02 September 2012
Piri Re'is and the Candy-Colored Mountains of the Argolid
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Map of the Argolid Peninsula by Piri Re’is. Before 1540. (You may need to click on the map to get the whole thing.) This...
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12 October 2010
Columbus: What They Wrote
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Parrots , Peter Boell Two contemporaries of Columbus report what they had learned about his voyages: Pietro Bembo's History of Veni...
10 September 2008
The Cape of Barking Dogs
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They sang sometimes with half-closed eyes as we were passing the abandoned island to the west with the prickly pear, past the cape of t...
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