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This Italian explorer in the service of France may have "narrowly" visited the Maryland region in 1524 |
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2008-03-24 |
#5426 |
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On April 17, 1524 he became the first European to sight New York Harbor; 440 years later a bridge named for him opened there |
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$1,000 |
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2005-07-15 |
#4820 |
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This Italian explorer of New York Bay was killed & probably eaten by Carib Indians in 1528 |
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$500 |
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1995-05-16 |
#2477 |
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Juan Diaz de Solis, like this Italian explorer of New York Bay, was killed & eaten by cannibals |
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$800 |
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1993-04-26 |
#2001 |
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The same trip on which he discovered New York Harbor, he also found Narragansett Bay |
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$500 |
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1991-12-06 |
#1675 |
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Before cannibals ate him in the Indies, this Italian sighted the N.Y. Bay where today a bridge bears his name |
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$600 |
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1986-11-20 |
#509 |
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This Italian explorer for whom longest U.S. suspension bridge is named, was also a pirate |
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$1,000 |
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1985-10-24 |
#294 |