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AnswerAmelia "Earnhardt" is a common but incorrect spelling. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and...
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She did not go to school because her father didn't feel it was necessary. He did teach her German, because it was used when...
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A boat from the Santa Maria took Columbus ashore.The names "Niña ", "Pinta" and "Santa Maria", are currently applied to the...
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He was buried in a lead coffin at sea near Portobello. Now divers continue to look for the body.
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Thomas Mitchell undertook three major expeditions to explore in southern Australia, and one expedition in what is now Queensland....
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No. James Cook circumnavigated New Zealand, and he certainly passed the site of the future city of Wellington, but there were no...
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Food, clothing,on her last trip probally only food and a little water so she could survive.It was a small plane so it's not like...
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It was Cortez who ordered his ships burned in 1519 before leading his men to battle against the Aztecs in orders to take away...
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china
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thwy described him as a bad person
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Unfortunately, almost nothing is known of Dias' early life. His supposed descent from one of Prince Henry the Navigator's pilots...
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No. Henry IV sponsored his exploration.
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the Netherlands
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Well, without doing any further research, I can offer that most of the European exploration before 1492 that had the specific...
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The conquistadors are best known for their subjugation of the Aztecs in Mexico (Cortes) and the Incas in Peru (Pizarro).
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he helped his company explore the world
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Mungo Park, the Scottish explorer of Africa was qualified as a Medical Officer.
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No, on his first voyage of discovery, he had two ships and 110 men, and on his second voyage he had three ships, the number of...
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It was God, Glory and Gold in that order. Hoewever, in most cases it turned out to be Gold, Glory and God.
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Blocked by ice every time, except his last journey, which was on the Half Moon and his crew almost died in the Hudson Bay because...
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He died of what is thought to be dysentery off the coast of Porto Belo, Brazil in 1595.
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Unfortunately, no record of the cause of her death exists today.
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he was 6.5 ft befor he died cheers
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no he did not succeed
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Paul Strzelecki was born on July 20, 1797.
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to find prester john who was a Christan king
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The routes taken by Marco, his father, and uncle were overland. It took them 4 years to reach China.
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borned : 1451 - died : 24 May 1500
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No, there isn't an ocean named after him- only a river. See 'related links' for more information.
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Zheng He's fleets visited Arabia, Brunei, East Africa, India, Maritime Southeast Asia and Thailand during his seven voyages of...
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Other ships are destroyed because of a typhoon, others from a war while others sank. Only Victoria, returned to Spain.
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AnswerChristopher Columbus (October 30, 1451? � 20 May 1506) was an explorer and trader who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and...
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to find a new route to Asia
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That would have been in 1492, the time of his discovery of the islands.
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According to the latest research as of 2008 in Garry Gitzen's "Francis Drake in Nehalem Bay 1579, Setting the Historical Record...
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He was born as a Virginia slave on 6 April 1798 and died as a free Mountain Man on 29 October 1866 in Denver, Colorado
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I believe that Christopher Columbus did not drink coffee. I know that he drank orange juice, rum, wine, beer, water, lemon juce...
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They were two different women, both Aviatrixes. Amelia is a household word. Miss Batten, however is not as well known, she was...
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Several of his voyages were merely as an observer by the invitation of Manuel I of Portugal. On a voyage in 1500 which was...
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he was a kind caring man who was really generous and gave up alot of time to help others for example all the work he did in Nepal...
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He didn't work any where... He voyaged... Like on the boat! That was his job!
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He lost 2 of his first 3 children
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Marco Polo was credited for ''discovering the Orient''. Many people had sailed the seas and mapped the areas but he was the one...
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How to survive.
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Because he sailed around the world looking for ships to raid and he was a very explorative man. He would show no mercy to any...
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The region just south of Cape Leeuwin through to Nuyts Archipelago, some 1800km east, was first explored by Captain Francois...
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no they are not in any way related
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he was a liar and made it to a new place and killed natives.
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According to several sources, it is approximated that Sir Edmund Hillary climbed five or six expeditions before Mount Everest.
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Columbus rediscovered Trinidad on Tuesday 31st of July 1498 on his third voyage from Seville. He was forced to take a more...
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Pagkatapos ng ekspedisyon ni Ferdinand Magellan, ay nag padala ang Spain ng iba pang mga ekspidisyon. Una ang paglalayag ni...
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa and his expedition discovered the Pacific Ocean (at that time called the South Sea) on September 25, 1513.
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Many were Calvinists or Hugenots.
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John McDouall Stuart was born in Scotland on 7 September 1815. He died on 5 June 1866, aged fifty years.
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Contrary to popular belief, the expedition DID NOT begin in St. Louis, Missouri. The first entry in the Lewis and Clark...
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Cook's original mission was to observe the transit of Venus from the vantage point of Tahiti. Cook was then under secret orders...
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she guided Lewis and Clark through the mountains
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Prince Henry the Navigator (Dom Henrique) was born in 1394 and died in 1460. He is most famous for voyages of discovery that he...
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Because England wanted to trade English wool with Russian fur , gold , and other valuable items.
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The expedition's goal as stated by President Jefferson was "to explore the Missouri River, & such principal stream of it as,...
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James Cook commanded three ships, the HMS Bark Endeavour, the Resolution and the Adventure. Cook's best known ship was the...
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Yes, he did even though he was from Portugal. The King of Portugal refused to let him sail,but the King of Spain agreed.
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most likely a ship and compass
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He had one son, Peter, and two daughters, Belinda and Sarah.
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My apology and compliments to the original answerer of this question, who responded with: "200-600 tons" I have decided to...
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The Santa Maria and the San Anton are mentioned in the provided link below. As he made more than one expedition, there may be...
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I'm pretty sure that it was a friendly encounter.
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They had no contact with any natives. Although they found signs of them..
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Columbus was looking for a faster trade route to Asia to make transportation more profitable. He was trying to find a western...
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On May 20th, 1497, Cabot set out from Bristol, UK on a small ship called the Matthew. His son Sebastian was on board. John Cabot...
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He was born in 1570 and died in 1611.
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He set of from Italy.
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No, astrolabes can be traced back to the Greeks in 150 BC, long before Henrys time.
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In Italy, he is known as Giovanni Caboto bryan
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To find a shorter route from Europe to Asia through the Arctic Ocean.
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Spanish Explorers and Conquerors of the New World were called 'Conquistadors'.
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Emperor Kublai Khan of the Mongolian rule over China, later to become known as the Chinese Yuan Dynasty. Kublai Khan or Khubilai...
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Smith was the first white man to cross the future state of Nevada.
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Marco Polo did drugs and he ate lots of dogs AND YES HE WAS ADOPTED.
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La Salle was born on November 21, 1643, in Rouen, France.I shall assume you mean Rene Robert Cavalier Sieur de La Salle and yes,...
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Pizarro was with the Incas, and Cortes was with the Aztecs.
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Vasco da Gama (c. 1469-1524) was a Portuguese navigator widely credited with being the first person to travel by sea to India...
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He died at the young age of 44 in 1554 (actual dates are in dispute). He was seriously injured by a fall during his expedition...
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Henry Ford was known to have pro-Nazi feeling. For what reason I cannot say. Charles Lindbergh was world famous after his...
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