Vasco da Gama
Americannoun
noun
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None of us ever met Christopher Columbus or Ferdinand Magellan or Vasco da Gama, the great explorers of history, but for more than 50 years astronauts have walked among us.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Bournemouth are closing in on a move worth about £30.6m for Vasco da Gama striker Rayan.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
“We are sitting on a time bomb,” Vasco da Gama vice president Felipe Carregal Sztajnbok said in March.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024
In his first stage role, at 9, Mr. Carter played the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama on a voyage of discovery.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2024
Before the British took Malabar, before the Dutch Ascendency, before Vasco da Gama arrived, before the Zamorin’s conquest of Calicut.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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