Have you ever struggled with something? It may have been getting a good grade on a test or making the basketball team, but Cabeza de Vaca’s experience was much more difficult. Cabeza was on an expedition to the uncharted lands of the new world. With 300 men and Panfilo de Narvaez, one of the best conquistadors, what could go wrong? They found the answer. Their ship got pushed off course, so they decided to make landfall. With no ships in sight, and little food, Narvaez was clueless about what to
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The Americas are one of the greatest, most powerful places that the world has ever seen. As Isrealmore Ayivor once said: “Every big castle was once started with a single block.” Many may wonder what was that single block that started the Americas. One of the most important ‘blocks’ in their discovery was Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas had a interesting beginning, difficult, but rewarding journey, and lead to many significant events. The beginning of Christopher
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Imagine a place with beautiful calm blue waters, soft white sand, and it's a pest free zone! Almost seems like a dream right? Well it is not, today we are visiting the gorgeous island of Bora Bora. Bora Bora is a tropical island in the French Polynesia also know as Tahiti which is made up of one hundred and eighteen island that are divided into five groups. The island's original name was "Pora Pora" since there is not letter 'b' in the Tahitian language, but changed to Bora Bora when Jakob Roggeveen
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Flying Corps practicing at the airfield nearby” (“Amelia Earhart"). In 1920, she went on a ten minute plane ride in Long Beach and decided she wanted to learn how to fly (“Amelia Earhart"). She wanted to be “the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic” (Grossman). Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, her flying partner, set out on June 1, 1937, to accomplish that goal. By June 29, approximately 22,000 miles of their trip had been completed when they stopped in New Guinea for repairs (“Amelia Earhart")
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A little fleet of ships would always be remembered crossing the Atlantic to reach the America named the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. Christopher Columbus got permission and funds from the King and Queen of Spain ,so Columbus ordered the three ships to be used during the voyage to get to the Indies. The biggest and slowest ship out of the fleet was the Santa Maria and became Columbus’ flagship. The Santa Maria was built in Pontevedra, Galicia ,so it was sometimes called the La Gallega, meaning
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He traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and then to Maine. Hudson traveled south along the coast till he reached the river. ¨ After navigating the Atlantic coast, Hudson sailed up a great river (which would later be his name) but turned back when they determined it was not the channel they sought¨(History.com). Hudson sailed up the great river
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In these three paragraphs I will be telling you how the Panama Canal was built, the struggles the men who built it had to go through to build this massive canal, I will also talk about how it made an impact on the world past and present day. First I’ll talk about how the Panama Canal was built. First, the French started the canal, which ended in total failure, where there was many cases of Yellow Fever,failed equipment, and loss of too many lives. Then a few years after the French backed out, the
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he Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest freighter on the Great Lakes at the time, and was bound for Detroit, Michigan. On March 10, 1975, the ship sank in Lake Superior. On November 8, a storm was moving towards the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Arthur M. Anderson, bound for Gary, Indiana, decided to change their course, and remained in contact throughout the storm. The storm shifted while over the Great Lakes. The website http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/fitz.html states, “At around this
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Dating back to the 16th century, the idea of connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean had its roots in a number of countries destined to make this voyage from one ocean to another seamlessly. Charles, The Holy Emperor, was first coined in developing the idea of such a canal mainly for military advantages against Portugal. In a 1698, the “Darien Scheme,” by the Kingdom of Scotland, developed the idea of creating a passage way across Panama’s isthmus as a method of trade, though was the
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he came across the New World and has since been known as a pioneer to exploration, extending boundaries in search of the unknown. Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. At the age of 25, he set sail on his first trip across the Atlantic ocean. After being attacked by French privateers, Columbus was shipwrecked off the coast of Portugal and forced to make his way to shore. He settled in Lisbon, Portugal and married a women by the name of Felpia Perestrello,
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