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John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto [dʒoˈvanni kaˈbɔːto]; c. 1450 – c. 1499) [2] was an Italian [2] [3] navigator and explorer.His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
The Explorer is a 1964 novel by American author Frances Parkinson Keyes. Set in Virginia 1953, [ 1 ] the novel was originally released by McGraw-Hill Book Company , there have since been several reprints of her book, [ 2 ] with the latest release in paperback format in June 1994 by Hodder General Publishing Division.
The book was designed by Frank Brunner, Rich Burlew (author of The Order of the Stick webcomic), and David Noonan, and was published in August 2005. Cover art was by Wayne Reynolds , with interior art by Anne Stokes , Draxhall Jump Entertainment , Eric Deschamps , Francis Tsai , Howard Lyon , Igor-Alban Chevalier , Mark Tedin , and Steve Prescott .
Sir David Kim Hempleman-Adams, KCVO, OBE, KStJ, DL, FRSGS (born 10 October 1956) is a British industrialist and adventurer.. He is the first person to complete the Explorer's Grand Slam, by reaching the Geographic and Magnetic North and South Poles, as well as climbing the highest peaks in all seven continents, the first person to fly to the North Pole in a balloon, and the first person to ...
Memoirs of the Life and Travels of John Ledyard, Jared Sparks, 1828. [8] American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking the World, James Zug, Basic Books; 30 March 2005. ISBN 0-465-09405-8. Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer, Bill Gifford, Harcourt; 5 February 2007, ISBN 0-15-101218-0.
Tomiko Itooka, a 116-year-old Japanese woman who became the oldest living person in August 2024, died on Dec. 29, 2024, according to Guinness World Records.
John Gregory (14 July 1831 [1] – 20 May 1922) [2] was a shoemaker, poet, peace activist and trade unionist, [3] sometimes referred to as 'the poet-shoemaker of Bristol' or the 'poet cobbler'. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He has been called "a pioneering figure in the development of an independent working-class movement in Bristol".
In 1854, the explorer John Rae found himself at the centre of one of the great controversies of the nineteenth century – the fate of the Franklin expedition. With the British hoping to be first in the race to discover the Northwest Passage, the news Rae brought of starvation and cannibalism among final survivors set off a firestorm that would eclipse his own incredible accomplishments.