At the mouth of the Gambia, Cadamosto made a note of the near-disappearance of the northern Pole Star on the horizon, and roughly sketched a bright constellation to the south, believed to be the first known depiction of the Southern Cross constellation ( albeit wrongly positioned and with too many stars-a more accurate rendition would have to wait until Mestre João Faras in 1500.

Depiction of the Crux ( labelled ' Las Guardas ') by physician-astronomer Mestre João Faras in his letter of May 1, 1500, to King Manuel I of Portugal from the newly discovered land of Brazil

The original term that given to the converts by the Beta Israel was " Faras Muqra " (" horse of the raven ") which the word " horse " refers to the converts and the word " raven " to the missionary Martin Flad who used to wear black clothes.

In Hebrew the term " Falash Mura " ( or " Falashmura ") is probably a result of confusion with the term " Faras Muqra " and its derivatives and which on the basis of false cognate it was given the Hebrew meaning of Falashim Mumarim (" Converted Falashas ").

Caminha's official report and an additional separate letter by the astronomer-physician Mestre João Faras, were given to one of Cabral's captains ( either Gaspar de Lemos or André Gonçalves, sources conflict ).

Nobatia in the north, had its capital at Faras, in what is now Egypt ; the central kingdom, Muqurra, was centered at Dunqulah, the old city on the Nile about 150 kilometers south of modern Dunqulah ; and Alwa, in the heartland of old Meroe in the south, had its capital at Sawba.

Some of more important Makurian sites looked at were the city of Faras and its cathedral, excavated by a team from Poland ; the British work at Qasr Ibrim ; and the University of Ghana's work at the town of Debeira West, which gave important information on daily life in medieval Nubia.

Shinnie ,< sup > 1 </ sup > the first year of Merkurios ' reign can be dated by an inscription on the foundation stone in Faras, which was dated to AD 707, and also to Merkurios ' eleventh regnal year.

* Exhibition on Faras, Vienna 2002

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Andrzejewski also took part in the 1959 Polish expedition to Nubia and made the documentation survey of Faras.

Michałowski directed Polish excavations at many sites, including Tell Atrib ( ancient Athribis ) from 1957, Alexandria from 1960, Dabod 1961, Faras 1961 – 1964, Deir el-Bahari from 1961 and Dongola from 1964.

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Important industries included the production of pottery, based at Faras, and weaving based at Dongola.

The Makurian church was divided into seven bishoprics: Kalabsha, Qupta, Qasr Ibrim, Faras, Sai, Dongola, and Suenkur.

One of the most important discoveries of the rushed work prior to the flooding of Lower Nubia was the Cathedral of Faras.

After this domestic production increased, with a major production facility at Faras.

Lucas records an “ instance of ladanum having been found in connection with ancient Egypt is a specimen of Coptic incense of the seventh century from Faras near Wadi Halfa.

The main towns were Aswan ( Greek Syene ) in Egypt and Faras ( Coptic Bakharas, Greek Pakhoras, Arabic Bajrash ) and Fort Ibrim ( Coptic Phrim, Greek Primis ) in Nobadia.

This term derived the additional names Falas Muqra, Faras Mura and Falas Mura.

He was the son of Abba Seru Gwangul, chieftain of the Yejju Oromo, and Gelebu Faras.

Faras ( formerly, Pakhôras ; ; Old Nubian: Ⲡⲁⲣⲁ, Para ) was a major city in Lower Nubia.

St. Anne, the fresco from Faras ( National Museum, Warsaw )

During the period of ancient Egyptian control over Nubia, Faras became an Egyptian administrative centre and, located upriver from Abu Simbel, Egyptian cultural influences were prominent.

The city reached its height during the Christian period of Nubia, when Faras was the capital of the Basiliskos Silko of Nobadia.

They depict a number of well-known Biblical scenes and also portraits of various bishops of Faras and monarchs.

Charles de l ' Ecluse, who first described and sketched C. indica indicates this origin, and states that it was given the name of indica, not because the plant is from India, in Asia, but because this species was originally transported from America: " Quia ex America primum delata sit "; and at that time, one described the tropical areas of that part of the globe as the Western Indies.

In 1591 a Belgian, Jean Beavie, described and sketched the important idea of multistage rockets.

It was first sketched in his book Software Requirements and Specifications, and described much more fully in his book Problem Frames.

In 2003 Grigori Perelman sketched a proof of the geometrization conjecture by showing that the Ricci flow can indeed be continued past the singularities, and has the behavior described above.

The famous Australian freshwater native fish Murray cod, Maccullochella peelii, was named after the Peel River by Major Mitchell, who sketched and scientifically described and named one of the numerous Muray cod his men caught from the river on his 1838 expedition.

He described and sketched some of what he saw in his Topography.

On 5 April 1436, he described and sketched a plan of the ancient city walls, indicating the position of the theatre and the fortifications of the acropolis and mentioning the existence of inscriptions.

His Book V of Nicomachean Ethics, after an outline of positive characteristics ( e. g., " liberality ," " noble-mindedness ," " wit ") encouraged in humans, sketched some characters based on their possession or lack of these characteristics.

It has its origin in an organization known as the " Freie Volksbühne " (" Free People's Theater ") which sketched out the vision for a theater " of the people " in 1892.

The Rocks were visited and sketched by the well-known writer and magazine illustrator David Hunter Strother ( known by his pseudonym " Porte Crayon ") around 1853.

Perhaps, in that short piece or letter written to Hartlib in which he sketched his scheme for educating young men, he merely overlooked that phase of their exercises.

Young also suggests that the story about Coubertin's having sketched the velodrome were untrue, and that he had in fact given an interview in which he suggested he did not want Germans to participate, something he later denied in a letter to the Kaiser.

The theorem is named after the mathematician Friedrich Engel, who sketched a proof of it in a letter to Wilhelm Killing dated 20 July 1890.

In a letter to Thomas Henry Huxley in 1854 ( five years before his own book on evolution was published but twelve years after its ideas had first been sketched out in an unpublished essay ), Darwin expressed sympathy for the ( still anonymous ) author of Vestiges in the face of a savage review by Huxley: " I must think that such a book, if it does no other good, spreads the taste for Natural Science.

The clue is a note found in a dead agent's pocket ; letter M, number 61, and a sketch of a crescent moon are all that is written on a bit of hotel stationery ( sketched in the book ).