John Cabot's Exploration of North America
Overview
In 1497 John Cabot (1450?-1499?), an Italian explorer sailing for England, reached land somewhere in the northern part of North America. Altho...
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John Cabot
c. 1450-c. 1500
Italian navigator, also known as Giovanni Caboto, who was the first European to discover the North American mainland. In 1497 he set out with his three sons on a voyage for ...
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John Cabot
Born c. 1450, Genoa, ltaly Died c. 1499, Possibly in Newfoundland
Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) was born in the Italian port city of Genoa. In 1476 he was granted citizenship in Venice, wh...
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John Cabot (active 1471-1498), born Giovanni Caboto, was an Italian explorer in English service. He was once thought to have been the first to bear the English flag across the Atlantic, but recent evi...
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Question 1 of 10:
Henry V, the legendary hero of Agincourt, was mounting yet another invasion of
France
in 1422 when he...Drowned in the ChannelWas killed while huntingWas killed in battle
Succu...
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Government attorneys have asked a top court to throw out indictments against 26 Americans _ all but one of them believed to be CIA agents _ accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terrorist suspect in a ...
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ROME, Jan 21 (Reuters) - An erstwhile ally of Italian Prime
Minister Romano Prodi on Monday dealt his coalition government a
potentially fatal blow when he withdrew support, but the premier
resist...
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ROME, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Italy's centre-left government
struggled to stay afloat on Wednesday and even the president
appeared to doubt that Prime Minister Romano Prodi, weakened by
defections, cou...
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John Cabot's Exploration of North America
John Cabot
John Cabot
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