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Di·as

(dē′əs, -əsh), Bartolomeu 1450?-1500.

Portuguese navigator who was the first to round the Cape of Good Hope. Because of storms he did not actually sight it until the return leg of his voyage (May 1488).

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Dias

(ˈdiːəs; Portuguese ˈdiəʃ) or

Diaz

(Biography) Bartholomeu (ˌbərtuluˈmeu). ?1450–1500, Portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route from Europe to the East via the Cape of Good Hope (1488)

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Di•as

(ˈdi əs, -əʃ)

n.

Bartholomeu, c1450–1500, Portuguese navigator: discovered Cape of Good Hope.

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Dias - Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)

Bartholomeu Dias, Bartholomeu Diaz, Diaz

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And according to Hesiod, Pleisthenes was a son of Atreus and Aerope, and Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes and Cleolla the daughter of Dias.

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Scholastic (Nasdaq:SCHL), a children's publishing, education and media company, announced on Thursday the acquisition of world rights to an activism book written by Marley Dias, a 12 year-old social activist behind #1000BlackGirlBooks, an international movement to collect and donate children's books that feature Black girls as the lead character.

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Todos os produtos foram aplicados no volume de calda de 100 L [ha.sup.-1], aos 75 dias (pre-amolecimento), 95 dias (dez dias antes da colheita) e aos 103 dias (dois dias antes da colheita).