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La Amistad International Park is equally split between Costa Rica and Panama, as part of the former La Amistad Reserves. The park protects a large part of the Cordillera de Talamanca mountain range, including the highest point in Costa Rica, Cerro Chirripó. It covers 401,000 ha of tropical forest and is the largest nature reserve in Central ...
La Amistad (pronounced [la a.misˈtað]; Spanish for Friendship) was a 19th-century two-masted schooner owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba.It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives who had been captured and sold to European slave traders and illegally transported by a Portuguese ship from West Africa to Cuba, in violation of European treaties against the Atlantic ...
Joseph Cinqué. Sengbe Pieh ( c. 1814 – c. 1879), [1] also known as Joseph Cinqué or Cinquez [2] and sometimes referred to mononymously as Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende people [citation needed] who led a revolt of many Africans on the Spanish slave ship La Amistad in July 1839. After the ship was taken into custody by the US ...
Phyllis and Aristotle. The tale of Phyllis and Aristotle is a medieval cautionary tale about the triumph of a seductive woman, Phyllis, over the greatest male intellect, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. It is one of several Power of Women stories from that time. Among early versions is the French Lai d'Aristote from 1220.
Aristoteles is a lunar impact crater that lies near the southern edge of the Mare Frigoris and to the east of the Montes Alpes mountain range. It was officially named in 1935 after the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle by the International Astronomical Union , using the classical form of his name.
James Benjamin Covey ( né Kaweli; c. 1825 – 12 October 1850) [citation needed] was a sailor, remembered today chiefly for his role as interpreter during the legal proceedings in the United States federal courts that followed the 1839 revolt aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad. Covey, who spoke Mende and English, was instrumental for ...
Poetics. (Aristotle) Aristotle 's Poetics ( Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς Peri poietikês; Latin: De Poetica; [1] c. 335 BCE [2]) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.