| Erik the Red Tenth century A.D. |
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| Leif Eriksson 1000 A.D. |
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| Marco Polo 1254-1324 A.D. |
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| Henry the Navigator 1394-1460 A.D. |
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| John Cabot 1450-1498 A.D. |
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| Christopher Columbus 1451-1506 A.D. |
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| Amerigo Vespucci 1454-1512 A.D. |
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| Juan Ponce de Leon 1460-1521 A.D |
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| Vasco da Gama 1460-1524 A.D. |
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| Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543 A.D. |
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| Vasco Nunez de Balboa 1475-1517 A.D. |
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| Francisco Pizarro 1475-1541 A.D. |
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| Ferdinand Magellan 1480-1521 A.D. |
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| Giovanni da Verrazano c. 1485-c. 1528 A.D. |
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| Hernando Cortes 1485-1547 A.D. |
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| Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 A.D. |
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| Hernando de Soto c. 1496-1542 A.D. |
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| Francisco Vasquez de Coronado 1510-1554 A.D. |
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| Esteban's wanderings 1528-1536 A.D. |
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| Sir Francis Drake 1540-1596 A.D. |
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| Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo died 1543 A.D. |
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| Juan de Onate c. 1550-c. 1630 A.D. |
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| Sir Walter Raleigh 1552-1618 A.D. |
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| Samuel de Champlain 1567-1635 A.D. |
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| John Smith c. 1580-1631 A.D. |
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| Henry Hudson died 1611 A.D. |
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| Vitus Bering 1681-1741 A.D. |
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| James Cook (Captain Cook) 1728-1779 A.D. |
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| Sacagawea c. 1787-1812 A.D. |
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| Jedediah Smith 1799-1831 A.D. |
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| The Lewis and Clark Expedition 1803-1806 A.D. |
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| Christopher "Kit" Carson 1809-1868 A.D. |
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| David Livingstone 1813-1873 A.D. |
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| Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904 A.D. |
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| Robert Edwin Peary 1856-1920 A.D. |
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| Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton 1874-1922 A.D. |
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| Richard Evelyn Byrd 1888-1957 A.D. |
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| Amelia Earhart c. 1897-1937 A.D. |
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| Charles Augustus Lindbergh 1902-1974 A.D. |
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| Sir Edmund Percival Hillary 1919-2008 A.D. |
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| John Herschel Glenn, Jr. 1921-2016 A.D. |
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| Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager 1923- A.D. |
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| Sputnik I October 4, 1957 A.D. |
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| Explorer I & NASA 1958 A.D. |
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| Apollo Program 1963-1972 A.D. |
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| The Moon Rover July 30, 1971 A.D. |
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| Skylab is Launched into Orbit May 14, 1973 A.D. |
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| Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster January 28, 1986 A.D. |
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| Hubble Telescope Launched into Space 1990 A.D. |
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