Francisco de Montejo
Francisco de Montejo , c.1479-c.1548, Spanish conquistador. He served in Cuba under Diego Velásquez, later commanded a vessel in the expedition of Juan de Grijalva, and joined Hernán Cortés in the conquest of Mexico. Montejo was commissioned to conquer the Maya of Yucatán, but failed in his attempt (1527-28) to take the peninsula from the east. He proceeded to Mexico, subdued (1530) Tabasco, and then conducted (1531-35) a campaign from the west. At first partially successful, he encountered increasingly fierce Maya resistance, and his men, exhausted and finding no booty, deserted. Forced to withdraw from the peninsula, he retired again to Mexico, a disillusioned and impoverished man. In 1540 he entrusted the conquest to his son, Francisco de Montejo, who by 1542 effectively subdued the western part of the peninsula, founding Campeche, Mérida, and other settlements. After a general Native American uprising had been quelled, he finally conquered the eastern portion in 1546.
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SEXTANT APPEAL THANKS TO SATELLITES AND ELECTRONICS, CELESTIAL NAVIGATION HAS LOST ITS CHARM, BUT MUSEUM FINDS MANY STILL WANT TO LEARN.(DAILY BREAK)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 3/28/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Very tidy. Very forgotten. Celestial navigation - calculating a...space right now devoted to celestial navigation and why, in the...not. He's been teaching celestial navigation on Wednesday evenings...adopted as the site of the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude...
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CELESTIAL PROGRAM
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 9/12/1997; 700+ words
; ...Saturday at Sunset Hill Farm County Park, U.S. 6 and Meridian Road, Liberty Township (near Valparaiso). Admission is...Saturday at Sunset Hill Farm County Park, U.S. 6 and Meridian Road, Liberty Township (near Valparaiso). There'll be...
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Sky Watch; Celestial 2K
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...left of Jupiter is the ringed Saturn. Jupiter crosses the meridian soon after 7 p.m., Saturn crosses it around 8 p.m. When...opening strains of "Auld Lang Syne," Gemini will cross the meridian. At 1:30 a.m., Jupiter becomes the first planet to set...
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What the stargazers foretell of celestial events in South African skies during 2008.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa); 1/4/2008; 700+ words
; ...nearly three decades ago. In the past all world times were based on the 0o meridian through Greenwich, London. This meant that all times were calculated from that meridian, or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Since January 1, 1972 this has become...
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Seeing stars.(astronomical observatories)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...degrees. One of the rings represented the celestial equator, and the other the celestial meridian. The meridian is an imaginary circle passing right over one's head and through the celestial pole. The celestial equator serves to pinpoint...
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The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...brought Italian astronomy to its knees. Heilbron's title refers specifically to the precise projections of the celestial meridian on a spate of church floors during this period (and well into the nineteenth century). Through an aperture high...
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And an angle from heaven did come down
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/26/1997; 452 words
; ...collected in The Quest for Longitude (Harvard, pounds 49.95). All you could ever want to know about celestial geometry, meridian transits, maps, compasses and the innards of clocks, wonderfully illustrated in colour and black-and...
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DINE ITALIA: A taste of Italy hidden away in Meridian; Guissepe's Catering
Newspaper article from: Boise Weekly; 7/30/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...was sumptuous, with a mouth feel almost like gelato. I instantly went to heaven. My companion shared her tiramisu, also celestial, crafted with mascarpone cheese, ladyfingers, and espresso. The chef creates wedding cakes of Tiramisu, and I'm considering...
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Travel: UK - Millennium Park life Forget the mayhem of Greenwich. How about Lee Valley for your New Year celebrations? By Frank Partridge
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/22/1999; 700+ words
; ...show for the first time the meridian's 250-mile route through...OS Explorer No 174. As if by celestial plan, the meridian's route into London skirts...former gravel pits escort the meridian to its spiritual home at Greenwich...
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IFR by the sun and stars: not that long ago crews flew thousands of miles with no navigational aids except the sky itself. It's such an elegant solution.(IFR DIARY)(instrument flight rule)
Magazine article from: IFR; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...particular spot on the celestial sphere, arbitrarily selected...the analog of the prime meridian or Greenwich meridian. But, since the celestial sphere is moving westward...hour, the big trick in celestial navigation is knowing your...
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celestial meridian
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
celestial meridian See meridian, celestial .
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meridian, celestial
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
meridian, celestial A great circle on the celestial sphere that joins the north and south points on an observer's horizon, passing through the zenith and the celestial poles. When a celestial object crosses an observer's meridian it is said to be at culmination or in transit .
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celestial pole
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the earth's axis of rotation intersects the celestial sphere . The celestial pole is important as a reference point in the equatorial coordinate system ; the celestial meridian passes through it, as do the hour circles of...
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Celestial Intermediate Reference System
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
...reckoned from a point called the Celestial Intermediate Origin ( CIO ) instead...equinox. The CIO is a point on the celestial equator at present very close to the prime meridian of the Geocentric Celestial Reference System . CIRS directions...
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meridian
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...terrestrial poles. ∎ (also celestial meridian ) Astron. a circle passing through the celestial poles and the zenith of a given place...x2022; adj. relating to or situated at a meridian: the meridian moon. ∎...
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