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Eight copies of Audubon's The Birds of America have sold for more than $1 million. This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century ...
Green dots indicate the Ancient Beech Forest sites, orange dots are the sites of Mudéjar architecture of Aragon. The Way of St James comprises 20 sites across northern Spain that are not shown on the map. Garajonay National Park. San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Teide National Park.
Detail of the Cantiga #63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and Almanzor. [1]The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for ' reconquest ' [a]) or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was the successful series of military campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the ...
List of most expensive philatelic items. This is a list of the highest known prices paid for philatelic items, including stamps and covers. The current record price for a single stamp is US$ 9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. [1] [2]
LC Class. DP14. A Handbook for Travellers in Spain is an 1845 work of travel literature by English writer Richard Ford. It has been described as a defining moment in the genre. British tourists were travelling through Europe in increasing numbers and the need for guidebooks was beginning to be supplied by publishers like John Murray.
Maria Branyas (born 4 March 1907) of Spain is the world's oldest living person whose age has been validated. [ 2 ] John Tinniswood (born 26 August 1912) of the United Kingdom is the world's oldest living man whose age has been validated.
“Spain has contained inflation and now it has contained the ultra-nationalist Vox party,” Andres Villena, a professor at Madrid’s Complutense University, told CNN Monday.
$10 Capped Bust Right Eagle - 13 leaves MS-66+ United States Garrett Sotheby's/Stack's Bowers [35] September 2015 $2,574,000 1880 $4 Coiled Hair: United States Bonhams [36] September 2013 $2,415,000 1787 Brasher Doubloon - EB on Wing privately minted Heritage Auctions [37] January 2015 $2,400,000 1854-S $5 XF45 United States Heritage Auctions