Word: newfoundlands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visions of Cathay or a Northwest Passage-or at least a new fishing ground-and instead bumped into places like Greenland, Labrador and finally the rest of North America. The familiar names are here: Leif Ericsson, discovering his mysterious Vinland around 1000 (Morison would like to believe it was Newfoundland); John Cabot, who sought a short cut to the Indies and ended up at Newfoundland in 1497; Giovanni da Verrazzano, the gentleman-explorer from Florence, who found offshore New York "a very pleasant place" to visit in 1524. There are unfamiliar names, too, like St. Brendan the Navigator...
...whim, Kley then wrote to the Soviet embassy in Washington, which put him in touch with the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Certainly, said the Russians. They offered a good clear satellite shot not just of Maine but of the entire coast from Long Island to Newfoundland. The Soviets' candid space cameras are obviously positioned to snap perfect views of the parts of the world that interest them most. If Kley had asked the U.S. agencies for an aerial picture of Uzbekistan, they probably could have obliged...
...catch a glimpse of a total or nearly-total eclipse, although direct observation can be highly dangerous (see box). The path of totality extends across the Gulf of Mexico, cuts through Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, brushes past Virginia and New England, and finally disappears at sea beyond Newfoundland and Labrador. Viewers as far away as San Francisco may have an opportunity to see part of what some overly exuberant sky watchers have already dubbed "the eclipse of the century...
...from space would see the eclipse's totality as a black circle about a hundred miles across that would first appear off the Pacific Coast of Central America and then race across Southern Mexico. The shadow would then pass over the southeastern U. S.. Nantucket, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland before disappearing east of Greenland. This deep shadow or umbra is shaped like an inverted cone with its base on the moon and its narrowest point on the earth...
...Genoa, sailed the seas for King Henry VII of England, and discovered North America. Thus both North America and South America were discovered by Italians. After Cabot's death, his son Sebastian Cabot continued his father's explorations. He discovered, among other things, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, which serve to this day as a fishing ground for many nations. Another great explorer of Italian lineage was Giovanni Verrazano...