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  • Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages ...
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  • Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages ...
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  • The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves are part of Brazil's Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte ...
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  • A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. Seven areas are commonly considered as continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South ...
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  • Juan de la Cosa (c. 1460 – February 28, 1510) was a Spanish cartographer, conquistador, and explorer. He made the earliest extant European ...
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  • Giovanni Caboto (c. 1450 – c. 1499), known in English as John Cabot, was an Italian navigator and explorer commonly credited as the first early ...
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  • A pickled cucumber, most often simply called a pickle in the United States and Canada, is a cucumber that has been preserved and flavored in ...
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  • Florence (Italian: Firenze, Old Italian: Fiorenza, Latin: Florentia) is the capital and most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany, ...
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  • Johannes Müller von Königsberg (June 6, 1436 – July 6, 1476), known by his Latin pseudonym Regiomontanus, was an important German mathematician ...
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  • The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: Tratado de Tordesillas), signed at Tordesillas (now in Valladolid province ...
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  • The Río de la Plata (Spanish: "Silver River") — which is often referred to in English-speaking countries as the River Plate, or ...
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  • Venezuela, known since 1999 as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America. Its former president ...
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  • The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country ...
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  • Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana on the mainland of South America. The city is located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth ...
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  • Patagonia is the portion of South America which to the east of the Andes Mountains, lies south of the Neuquén and Río Colorado rivers, and ...
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  • Grenada is a group of three larger islands (Grenada, Carriacou, and Petit Martinique) and several tiny islands in the southeastern Caribbean ...
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  • The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically dated to 1492, although there was at least one earlier colonization effort ...
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  • South America [[Image:LocationSouthAmerica.png|190px]] {| style="background: transparent; text-align: left; table-layout: auto; border-collapse: ...
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  • Christopher Columbus, commonly rendered in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón (1451 - May 20, 1506) was a Genoese-born navigator, explorer, and colonizer ...
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