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Gaspar Corte Real

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gaspar Corte Real , c.1450-1501?, Portuguese explorer. Sent by King Manuel I to search for the Northwest Passage, he is said to have discovered Greenland in 1500 and may have touched on the North American coast. He made a second voyage with his brother Miguel in 1501. He then sent Miguel home and continued his exploration, sailing southwest along the present U.S. coast. Gaspar Corte Real was lost. In 1502 Miguel Corte Real went in search of him but was also lost. The brothers certainly reached Newfoundland and made sweeping discoveries, but the results were inconclusive. Bibliography: See... Read more
Gaspé
...Quebec/Canada The origin of the name is disputed. It may come from the Christian name of the Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte‐Real who went down the York River at the mouth of which the city lies c. 1500; or it may come from a Native American... Read more
Labrador
...present name arose, but one explanation is that Gaspar Corte‐Real, the Portuguese explorer, named it Terra de Lavradores...the land being cultivated; another is that one of Corte‐Real's sailors, a farmer, lavrador , from the Azores... Read more

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Dos francesas muy audaces.(Magazzine)
; ...Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci Dirige: Gaspar Noé En lo que la distribuidora Artecinema...comodidad de su hogar. El cineasta argentino Gaspar Noé, quien ya había shockeado...Cassel y Bellucci, novios en la vida real), cuyas aparentes insignificantes decisiones...243;n de 7 minutos de ... Read more
CANADA HONORS PORTUGUESE IMMIGRANTS, POSTAL CARRIER.(Stars)
; ...anniversary of official Portuguese immigration to Canada. Portugal, whose great explorers include Vasco de Gama and Gaspar Corte Real, played a major role in exploring the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is speculated that da Silva may... Read more
'CODE' OF MYSTERY THERE ARE HISTORICAL PUZZLERS THROUGHOUT THE REGION, AWAITING THE RIGHT MIX OF ADVENTURE AND PLOT TWISTS
; ...focuses on a visit circa 1502 by Miguel Corte- Real, the Portuguese explorer. Corte-Real sailed to the New World in search of his missing brother, Gaspar, who never returned from a 1501 journey...willing to grudgingly accept that perhaps Corte-Real did make it to Dighton. ... Read more
Plaza Publica / Cubanos presos.(Nacional)
; ...en busca de su independencia real hace apenas medio siglo, se...terrorismo. Luis Posada Carriles, Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo, Guillermo...cuestión fundamental que la Corte de Apelaciones de Atlanta debe...es la mejor prueba de que esa Corte debería anular la farsa... Read more
Retratan al pesebre y sus visitantes.(Primera Fila)
; ...de los mecenas del pintor (la corte y la Iglesia de la Reforma en...continente europeo), seguido por Gaspar, de rasgos asiaticos, y Baltasar...Catedral Metropolitana La Capilla Real de la Catedral Metropolitana...visitaran el pais. En la Capilla Real se encuentra el retablo La Adoracion... Read more

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