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Dubrovka venit ad Miskonem’ (Dąbrówka arrives at Mieszko’s court) – a manuscript with these words, dating back a thousand ...
You don’t need the oldest comic books to make a fortune ... like Ptolemy and Waldsemüller. For example, Ptolemy’s world map sold for about $312,000 at an auction in 2009, according to ...
Made On Earth – a new series by BBC Future and BBC World News – looks into the ... Explore Earth's evolution from Ptolemy's 150AD map to Nasa's 2024 carbon visualisation.
John Ogilby’s America—one of the greatest illustrated English works about the New World, printed in London in 1671—had contained 51 plates and maps. They were gone. A copy of Ptolemy’s ...
In two millennia, the perception of our planet has changed. In this video, we explore the images that marked our ...
without fuss — and lived to become the world’s oldest person. Meet Ethel Caterham, a 115-year-old British woman who now holds the title of the world’s oldest living person, according to the ...
Brazilian nun, Inah Canabarro Lucas, the world’s oldest person, passed away at 116 years old, just months after becoming the oldest person globally. Her death was announced on Wednesday by her ...
A Brazilian nun named the world’s oldest person in early 2025 has died, according to LongeviQuest, an agency that tracks the world’s longest-living people. Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas died on ...
The world’s oldest living person, a Brazilian nun — and beloved soccer superfan — has died at 116, her religious congregation said. Sister Inah Canabarro died at home of natural causes on ...
Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, the oldest person in the world, died on Wednesday 30 April in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the age of 116 years and 326 days. Ethel Caterham from the United Kingdom is now ...
Born in 1908, Canabarro became the world’s oldest person late last year after the death of Japan’s Tomiko Itooka, who also passed at 116. The nun and former teacher was widely known not only ...
May 2 (UPI) --The oldest living person in the world is now a woman living in Britain, Guinness World Records confirmed. Ethel Caterham, 115, was already the oldest living person in Britain when ...