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Dec 10, 1996
The first browsers.
Dec 11, 1996
Alexander The Great.
Dec 12, 1996
The discovery of America is usually associated to one date and one name: 1492 and Christopher Columbus. This ignores the fact that 500 years before the Spanish navigators touched land with their caravels, a handful of hardy Scandinavian sailors crossed the same ocean in their streamlined knorrs.
Dec 13, 1996
Was Genghis Khan really a barbarian risen out of the Asian steppe to bring terror and death onto Christendom, the direct successor of Attila the "wrath of God"? Europe certainly lived in holy fear of the mongol horsemen, for these nomads were the antithesis and the enemies of the "civilized" farming societies that populated the fertile plains of the West at that time.
Dec 16, 1996
1325 - Ibn Battuta, a young Maroccan, leaves his home town Tanger to go, as all good Muslim should, on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Little does he know that he is embarking on an extraordinary odyssey, perhaps the greatest journey of all times.
Dec 17, 1996
The big junks.
Dec 18, 1996
We are at the end of the XVth century. Spain and Portugal both seek the maritime path to India and the fabled spice islands. Nutmeg, pepper, clover: these are products worth their weight in gold ! When King Juan II of Portugal gives Vasco de Gama commandment of four ships to reach India by circum- navigating Africa, he knows that this young captain has the talent to succeed.
Dec 19, 1996
The Tassis, masters of posts.
Dec 20, 1996
The Pinzon brothers, the hidden face of Christopher Columbus.
Dec 23, 1996
Everyone knows that Christopher Colombus discovered America. So why is it that this continent is not called Columbia, for example, instead of America?
Dec 26, 1996
In 1518, Captain Fernando de Magellan and his friend the astronomer Rui Faliero are at the court of the king of Spain to present young Charles the Fifth with an astonishing project. The aim is to join the spice islands by heading due west and crossing the Atlantic, whereas since Vasco de Gama's trip in 1488, the Portugese sail to India via Africa, therefore heading south.
Dec 27, 1996
The year is 1528 and America is as of yet an unexplored continent. Five caravels appear off the coast of Florida, from which 600 men disembark under the orders of the conquistador Panfilo de Navaez. It is the golden age of the conquistadors, who pursue their dreams of Eldorado at the expense of the Indian tribes they encounter.
Dec 30, 1996
Béring.
Jan 01, 1997
Exploring the Pacific, the greatest of all oceans, is no small affair, and it took many years and intrepid navigators before each of its numerous islands was charted out.
Jan 02, 1997
Bruce and the sources of the Nile.
Jan 03, 1997
At Condamine.
Jan 06, 1997
In 1764, the Frenchman Bougainville, searching for the fabled "terra australis incognita", stumbles upon Tahiti, but fails to find the elusive southern continent that all maritime explorers are so eager to discover.
Jan 07, 1997
Scientist and philosopher, humanist, founding father of ethnology and anthropology: impossible to describe in one sentence the vast palette of talents which belonged to Alexander von Humboldt, one of the most brilliant figures of enlightenment!
Jan 08, 1997
Lewis and Clark.
Jan 09, 1997
Stuart and Burke.
Jan 10, 1997
Stanley and Livingstone.
Jan 13, 1997
In all times, the poles have drawn men to them. Axis of the Earth, magnetic indicators, they remain protected from human intrusion by their coat of ice. Towards the end of the 18th century, James Cook approaches both poles without touching land. In the 19th, several scientific expeditions attempt reaching the North Pole, more accurately charted and attainable than it's Antarctic counterpart.
Jan 14, 1997
Alexandra David-Neel.
Jan 15, 1997
As the 20th century begins, we find that the oceans, continents, tropical rainforests and polar regions of the globe have all seen the arrival of man... And quite sensibly, our children ask Maestro : "We have been to the North, to the South, to the West and the East. So, what is left ? " And our old wise man looks up to the skies.
Jan 16, 1997
Towards the peaks.
Jan 17, 1997
To the stars.
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Once Upon a Time... The Explorers (also know as Il était une fois... les explorateurs) Season 1 (1996) is released on Dec 10, 1996. Watch Once Upon a Time... The Explorers online - the French Animation TV series from France. Once Upon a Time... The Explorers is directed by Albert Barillé,Gilbert Barillé and created by Gilbert Barillé with Roger Carel and Patrick Préjean. Once Upon a Time... The Explorers is available online on Freevee and Amazon Video.