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unusual facts about The New World



Daniel Southworth

He also helped develop action sequences for Terrence Malick's The New World, took part in James Cameron's early visualizations of Avatar, and developed some of action scenes for Neill Blomkamp's Halo 3: Landfall web sequences.

Skiatook, Oklahoma

Actor Wes Studi of films such as Dances with Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans, Geronimo: An American Legend, The New World, and Avatar spent a portion of his childhood years living with his family in Skiatook.


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Aristopia

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World is an 1895 utopian novel by Castello Holford, considered the first novel-length alternate history in English (and among the earliest alternate histories in general).

Bamidele Ojo

His book, Human Rights and the New World Order, is used by the United Nations University International Human Rights Course.

Begomovirus

Two species isolated from Corchorus from Vietnam (informally 'Corchovirus') somewhat unexpectedly group with the New World species.

Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration

As with many other monastic groups, they looked to the New World for a place of refuge.The monks went on to found Conception Abbey in nearby Conception, Missouri, and began to minister to German and Irish immigrants of the region.

Brno Exhibition Centre

Examples of its architecture were displayed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and appeared in the publication The International Style & Architecture, which introduced modernism to the New World.

Capuchin

Capuchin monkey, primates of the genus Cebus considered among the most intelligent of the New World monkeys (those native to the Americas), named after the friars

Columbus Breaking the Egg

The story told by Girolamo Benzoni in his Historia del Mondo Nuovo of 1565 was that at a meal several of Columbus's detractors began to comment that any number of other people could have found their way to the New World and that Columbus's feat was unremarkable because of its simplicity.

Common marigold

Tagetes, a genus of plants native to the New World, but cultivated worldwide

E. cinnamomea

Eublemma cinnamomea, a moth species found in the New World tropics, from the southern United States south to Argentina

Ezequiel Martínez Estrada

He also edited two books of Fidel Castro's speeches, and numerous writings and pamphlets including El nuevo mundo, la isla de Utopía y la isla de Cuba (The New World, the Island of Utopia, and the Island of Cuba), in which he saw Cuba as having a manifest destiny, under which the indigenous Taínos of Cuba were linked to the "Amaurotos" of Thomas More's Utopia and Castro's Cuba to the ideal Cuba of Martí.

Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas

In 2010, PAC started using their song "Evolution (Entering the New World)" as his theme music when wrestling in Dragon Gate.

France–Americas relations

Since the 1950s, France has also been involved in building the European Economic Community (now the European Union) into a major world trade bloc, which has often led to trade disputes with the New World countries, especially over the issue of agricultural subsidies and tariffs.

Gary Marker

Two other bands of his, the Jazz Folk and the New World Jazz Company (which also included John Locke, Randy California and Ed Cassidy before moving on to form Spirit), were never recorded.

Georgia Guidestones

The monument is also featured in the "New World Order" episode of the History Channel series America Unearthed.

Hapaline

Any of the New World monkeys of the family Callitrichidae, which was incorrectly renamed Hapalinae for a time.

Henry Dwight Sedgwick

Cortés the Conqueror: The Exploits of the Earliest and Greatest of the Gentleman Adventurers in The New World (1926)

I. alba

Ipomoea alba, the moonflower or moon vine, a flowering plant species native to tropical and subtropical regions of the New World, from northern Argentina to Mexico and Florida.

I. tricolor

Ipomoea tricolor, a morning glory species native to the New World tropics

Interregnum of World Chess Champions

FIDE's discussions mainly favored: A round-robin tournament involving the world's top players, to determine who would be the new World Champion (their first proposal in July 1946 nominated Euwe, Botvinnik, Paul Keres, Vasily Smyslov, Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and one of the winners of the Groningen and Prague tournaments to be held later in 1946).

Ivan Zorman

“In 1938, his 5th book of poetry, From the New World, received honorable mention in the Jugoslav University Club at the Hollenden Hotel. Zorman eventually wrote 6 volumes of poetry and translated many others.” (The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History)

James Doull

He greatly admired the playing of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, with whom he shared, in addition to an extraordinary independence of mind, a vision of Canadian spiritual life (which for Doull encompassed such spheres as politics, art, religion, and philosophy) that combined both a receptivity to the possibilities of the new world and a strong sense of continuity with the European past.

Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas

Lake Maurepas, Louisiana, USA was named for him, showing his surviving influence on the New World.

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

He was a descendant of Lion Gardiner, an early English settler and soldier in the New World, who founded the first English settlement in what became the state of New York.

Juan de Torquemada

Fray Juan de Torquemada (ca. 1562—1624), Spanish Franciscan friar, missionary and historian of the New World

Juan Diego

For example, Bernardo de Balbuena wrote a poem while in Mexico City in 1602 entitled La Grandeza Mexicana in which he mentions all the cults and sanctuaries of any importance in Mexico City except Guadalupe, and Antonio de Remesal published in 1620 a general history of the New World which devoted space to Zumárraga but was silent about Guadalupe.

Kingswear

In recent history, Kingswear and the River Dart were used as filming locations for the movie The French Lieutenant's Woman and the television series The Onedin Line, where Kingswear represented the Old World and Dartmouth the New World, thus giving rise to the comments of the local tour guides that this was the shortest ever crossing of the Atlantic.

Latin American literature

From the very moment when Europeans encountered the New World, early explorers and conquistadores produced written accounts and crónicas of their experience, such as Columbus's letters or Bernal Díaz del Castillo's description of the conquest of Mexico.

Longcroft, Cumbria

The extremely distant descendants of the Kirkbrides would eventually emigrate across the pond to the New World and help establish the American city of Trenton, New Jersey, the capital of the State of New Jersey.

Longobucco

Emigration to the United States and Argentina reached its peak at this time as Longobucchesi such as the Gammuto family sought to escape poverty and the brigantaggio to find opportunity in the new world.

Lybster

One of the more famous of the clan was Patrick Sinclair, who joined the Imperial Army and headed to the New World.

Manteo, 1st Baron of Roanoke and Dasamongueponke

Manteo and Wanchese returned to the New World in April 1585, sailing with Sir Richard Grenville's expedition in the Tiger. They reached the warm waters of the Caribbean in just 21 days.

Mehrdad Izady

"The Geopolitical Realities of Kurdistan vs. Hopes for a New World Order" in Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order, Edited by Phyllis Bennis, Michel Moushabeck, Interlink Pub Group Inc, pp. 538, 1998.

Moon Palace

"Marco" refers to Marco Polo, the western explorer who reached China (Later M.S. "discovers" Kitty Wu and Uncle Victor gives him 1492 books, like the year of the discovery of "The New World" by Columbus).

Na-Dene languages

Contemporary supporters of Greenberg's theory, such as Merritt Ruhlen, have suggested that the Na-Dené language family represents a distinct migration of people from Asia to the New World.

Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon

New attempts were made to create a Huguenot colony in the New World, again at the instigation of Coligny, this time in Florida from 1562 to 1565, under Jean Ribault and René de Laudonnière.

Nuño de Guzmán

Hoping to establish a more orderly government, to reduce the authority of Cortés, and secure the authority of the Spanish crown in the New World, on December 13, 1527 the metropolitan government of Charles V in Burgos named a Real Audiencia to take over the government of the colony.

Plymouth Gin

The front of the bottle depicts the ship, Mayflower, based upon the fact that when the Pilgrim Fathers set out for their journey to the new world, bad sea conditions and damage forced them to put into Plymouth harbour for shelter and essential repairs.

Roanoke Island

John White, father of the colonist Eleanor Dare, and grandfather to Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World, left the colony to return to England for supplies.

Sanguisorba minor

It also has a respectable history, called a favorite herb by Francis Bacon, and was brought to the New World with the first English colonists, even getting special mention by Thomas Jefferson.

Sebastián de Belalcázar

According to various sources, he may have left for the New World with Christopher Columbus as early as 1498, but Juan de Castellanos wrote that he killed a mule in 1507, and fled to Spain for the West Indies due to fear of punishment, and as a chance to escape the poverty in which he lived.

Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad

The model will be displayed in the Naval Museum of La Habana, opened in June 2008 at Castillo de la Real Fuerza, the oldest building in Cuba and the oldest stone fortress in the New World.

Sucre

Sucre's University (Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca) is one of the oldest universities in the new world.

The Brethren Church

The first congregation in the New World was organized at Germantown, Pa., in 1723.

The Charnel Prince

Clearly a reference to the first child born in the New World, Virginia Dare, and Virginia Colony.

The New World of Leonard Nimoy

The New World of Leonard Nimoy is the fifth and final album to date of Leonard Nimoy.

Theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas

In 1996, Mark McMenamin proposed a theory that Phoenician sailors discovered the New World c.

Valentin Fortunov

Trud Publishing House releases in September 2008 the new World Business Encyclopaedia, grand volume, whose General Editor is Valentin Fortunov.

Walek Dzedzej

Between 1973 and 1977 Walek Dzedzej created a large number of texts, many of which are now lost, but the surviving ones, such as "Na ulicy nowy świat" ("On the New World Street"), "Nie mam nic do powiedzenia" ("I Have Nothing to Say") and "Dom wschodzącego słońca" (his version of "The House of the Rising Sun") have continued to be a part of the repertoire of numerous musical groups performing in Poland during the first decade of the 21st century.

What is America?: A Short History of the New World Order

: A Short History of the New World Order (ISBN 9781921351501) Ronald Wright continues the thread begun in A Short History of Progress by examining what he calls "the Columbian Age" and consequently the nature and historical origins of modern American imperium.

William Capps

He traveled to the Colony of Virginia aboard the Sea Venture and was apparently among those shipwrecked in Bermuda for several months before reaching the New World.