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Lewis and Clark--the names rise dimly from an elementary school textbook along with an illustration of two white men in a canoe. Explorers. The Northwest Passage. Something to do with Vasco da Gama...
...demonstrators spat on concertgoers as they tried to enter the theater. Three months later, a few days before singer Rosita Fornes, 74, was scheduled to perform at a popular night spot, someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window. The concerts were canceled, and the restaurant, Centro Vasco, a Miami institution, was shut down. "They feel like they are in a situation of war," says Miguel Gonzalez Pando, a Cuba researcher at Florida International University, "so any dissent is tantamount to treason." In the U.S., so is denying a person the right to free speech...
...controversial women. But since he is literally writing for time, the Moor throws in a whole lot more: everything he has heard or can remember or dream up about his mother's family. The eccentric and marvelously fractious Da Gamas trace their lineage, perhaps incorrectly, to the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who was the first European to reach India, thereby launching the spice trade that made the Moor's forebears wealthy. "Mine is the story of the fall from grace of a high-born cross-breed," the Moor notes, although the past "grace" he mentions consists largely...
...something of a pity that appliance repair is the way to justify man in space these days. Thirty years ago, when all this was starting, the model for manned flight was not Art Carney in the sewer but Vasco da Gama rounding the Cape. Long ago, public support for space exploration had two parts. First, a spirit of competition. It was sport -- war by other means -- writ large, very large: an international race to the moon...
...Around 1419 Portugal's Prince Henry (commonly known as "the Navigator," but wrongly so, since he never took part in any exploratory voyages himself) established a maritime training center at Sagres, on his country's Atlantic coast. Inspired by Henry's seafaring passion, such explorers as Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco Da Gama sailed down the coast of Africa and eventually to India. From the rival ports of Palos and Cadiz, under the flag of Spain, Christopher Columbus set out westward on his seminal voyage of discovery, eventually journeying four times to what he never believed was a New World...