Articles for tag: Cartier, Cartography, Voyage

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Biography of Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier was born in 1491. He died in 1557. His birthplace was Saint Malo in Brittany, France. When he grew up to be an explorer, France was the country he represented. Cartier explored from 1524 to 1542 and had three major voyages. His ship was the Grande Hermione. He had two goals: to go ...

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Painter Thomas Cole and his “Voyage of Life Series”

A Glimpse into Thomas Cole and the Voyage of Life Series Thomas Cole was born on February 1, 1801 in Lancashire England. In 1826 he settled in the Catskills, New York. Thomas Cole was an artist who painted amazing landscape portraits, and was also known as the founder of the Hudson River School. The Hudson ...

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea to the Big Screen

Sometime in 2004, it occurred to me that the late Irwin Allen’s ’60s sci fi TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea could make a serviceable big-screen movie, to say the least. Why not? Hollywood is always remaking TV shows as theatrical movies. Miami Vice is getting the large-screen treatment this summer, and ...