705 résultats pour "davids"

• Geographic Exploration - explorer.

  The commercial reason for exploration has been a consistent driving force. In 1492 the great navigator Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic Oceanseeking a new, shorter, and cheaper route to reach the riches of East Asia, and Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama circumnavigated Africa for much the same reason.Yet similar investigations of the profitable eastern trade had already been made by Arab sailors. Arab trading ships were sailing from the Arabian Sea to southeasternAsia probab...

• Boston - geography.

  The neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton occupy the northwest corner of the city to the west of Fenway. The Allston-Brighton area is bordered to the east, north, andwest by the Charles River and to the south by the Massachusetts Turnpike and the town of Brookline. It is an industrial and residential neighborhood that is also thelocation of Boston College and Harvard University Business School. Boston has been unsuccessful in annexing Brookline, the birthplace of U.S. president John F.Kennedy an...

• Supreme Court of the United States.

  The Constitution does not specify formal qualifications for membership on the Supreme Court. From the beginning, though, justices have all been lawyers, and mostpursued legal and political careers before serving on the Court. Many justices served as members of Congress, governors, or members of the Cabinet. One president,William Howard Taft, was later appointed chief justice. Some justices came to the Court from private law practice, and others were appointed from positions as lawprofessors. Man...

• Lauréats du prix Nobel.

  Henri Bergson (France) 1928 Sigrid Undset (Norvège) 1929 Thomas Mann (Allemagne) 1930 Sinclair Lewis (États-Unis) 1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Suède) 1932 John Galsworthy (Royaume-Uni) 1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bounine (URSS) 1934 Luigi Pirandello (Italie) 1935 Non décerné 1936 Eugene O'Neill (États-Unis) 1937 Roger Martin Du Gard (France) 1938 Pearl Buck (États-Unis) 1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finlande) 1940 Non décerné 1941 Non décerné 1942 Non décerné 1943 Non décer...

• Eiskunstlauf: Weltmeister.

  1992 Wiktor Petrenko, CIS Kurt Browning, CAN Elvis Stojko, CAN 1993 Kurt Browning, CAN Elvis Stojko, CAN Alexej Urmanow, RUS 1994 Elvis Stojko, CAN Philippe Candeloro, FRA Wjatscheslaw Sagorodnjuk, UKR 1995 Elvis Stojko, CAN Todd Eldredge, USA Philippe Candeloro, FRA 1996 Todd Eldredge, USA Ilja Kulik, RUS Rudy Galindo, USA 1997 Elvis Stojko, CAN Todd Eldredge, USA Alexej Jagudin, RUS 1998 Alexej Jagudin, RUS Todd Eldredge, USA Jewgeni Pljuschtschenko, RUS 1999 Alexej Jagudin, RUS Jewgeni Pljusc...