The article focuses on the first successful voyage across the Pacific Ocean from the U.S. to Asia and that was occurred in 1564 and 1565; and Trade brought the continents together and created a seascape around the Pacific basin that included places like Acapulco, Manila and coast of ...
Verrazzano thought that North America was a thin isthmus separating the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Verrazzano was killed and eaten by Carib Indians in 1528. The Verrazzano Narrows Bridge, a suspension bridge that spans New York Harbor, connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island (New York, USA), was...
The Verrazzano Narrows Bridge, a suspension bridge that spans New York Harbor, connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island (New York, USA), was named for Verrazzano. Vespucci, Amerigo Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) was an Italian explorer who was the first person to realize that the Americas were ...
Finally the 'Boss' called me when I was on the bridge to come & show some of the others a point he wasn't quite sure of, but I couldn't leave here at the time & came down later, but the dear old 'Boss' was quite prepared for me to let the ship wander along on her own"....
These ex-Marines want to be the first crew to row from New York to London. Photo: oceanrevival2020 Ocean Revival (UK) Matt Mason, Ian Clinton, Simon Chalk, and Jordan Swift are rowing from the Brooklyn Bridge in New York to Tower Bridge, London. After 62 days, they had covered 91 pe...
A bridge connecting Superior and Duluth, Minnesota, is named for Bong. “The Bong family is very excited about this discovery,” James Bong, Richard Bong’s nephew, said in the news release. “It is amazing and incredible that ‘Marge’ has been found and identified.”...
undiscovered land. Columbus thought he had succeeded in finding a shorting route to Asia, which we know as untrue, but everyone else thought he was correct. Except for a few explorers, one of them being Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the explorer who was the first European to see thePacific Ocean...
That’s right, this Italian explorer was more than just a traveler, he was a cultural bridge between the East and West. Marco Polo set off from Venice when he was only 17, eager to explore the unknown. His journey took him through treacherous terrains, but he never gave up. Eventually,...
According to Richardson, he and a friend were on a railroad bridge over Dardenne Creek one night. Richardson saw shadows moving and assumed it was his friend. To his shock, he discovered it was an 8-to-9-foot-tall creature with long, matted brown hair covering its body and face. Its ...
Giovanni da Verrazzano was an Italian explorer in the service of the French crown. He was sent by King Francis I of France to explore the Atlantic coast between South Carolina and Newfoundland for a route to the Pacific Ocean and in 1524. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York Harbor and...