完形填空 Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic and reached the American Continent in 1492.However, the name America has 1 to do with him.There was another 2 explorer who reached this 3 several years 4 Columbus.This man's name was Amerigo Ve
A CORUÑA, Spain—Cole Brauer, 29, has made history by becoming the first American woman to complete a nonstop trip around the world by sailboat. She completed the 30,000-mile journey in her 40-foot (12.2-meter) sailboat over the course of 130 days. Fewer than 200 people worldwide ...
Much of its popularity may come from the image of the paleontologist-explorer who pits himself against the wilderness and brings back fabulous things. The image is even partly true, because in the 19th century, dinosaurs (and paleontology) became part of the myth of the American West. No ...
¶ 25 Leave a comment on paragraph 25 1 Scandinavian seafarers reached the New World long before Columbus. At their peak they sailed as far east as Constantinople and raided settlements as far south as North Africa. They established limited colonies in Iceland and Greenland and, around the ye...
Fifteen men from the ship remained to secure the land for the English. Their bones were found in 1587 by explorer John White, who was sent by Raleigh with 116 English settlers to set up a colony. White left the island to secure supplies, and when he returned three years laterthe settlers...
September 1522- a vessel ‘Victoria’ sails into a Spanish harbor and 18 men on this voyage survived out of 237 who started out from Spain three years earlier. They were the first to have sailed around the world. Magellan one of the original leaders lies buried in the Philippine Islands. ...
Scandinavian seafarers reached the New World long before Columbus. At their peak they sailed as far east as Constantinople and raided settlements as far south as North Africa. They established limited colonies in Iceland and Greenland and, around the year 1000, Leif Erikson reached Newfoundland in...
who announced that Rabindranath Tagore has influenced her, recited the poem she had just written beginning with Poe's line from "Annabel Lee": "and the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes." The poem was about the Sichuan earthquake. "If you shed tears for the stars, you won't...
The performance in Oslo went on as scheduled. I felt like the captain who abandoned the ship, yet the ship miraculously sailed on, while the captain was left alone on the reefs, bruised and confused. Each day in the hospital, some part of me was in Oslo, rehearsing with the choir, ...
Google Brain Co-Founder Andrew Ng, Recommends: Read These 5 Books And Turn Your Life AroundBlinkist: Andrew Ng's Reading List Undo An adult bald eagle shows off a "backpack" transmitter carefully installed by the Center for Conservation Biology.(Image credit: Photo by Robert Lin) ...