da Gama
noun
Vasco Gama, Vasco da.
da Gama
American
[duh gam-uh, duh gah-muh]
/ də ˈgæm ə, də ˈgɑ mə /
noun
Da Gama
British
/ də ˈɡɑːmə /
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
“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
A large waterspout - a rotating column of mist and spray - has been spotted over the Vasco da Gama bridge in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 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
Similar walls have been built at the historical sites such as Fort Jesus in Mombasa and Vasco Da Gama Pillar in Malindi after the rise in seawater threatened these tourist attractions.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
Da Gama had come to India on a quest to find an all-water route to Southeast and East Asia, the source of spices, silks, porcelains, and other Asian goods.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Their owner, a Portuguese named Da Gama, tells Father Cyprian, Grim and the others about the Nine.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2020
In 1497, Vasco Da Gama, a Portuguese nobleman, was sponsored by the Portuguese crown and sailed around Africa and as far as India, in the process claiming various territories for Portugal.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Da Gama and Albuquerque began a movement, which still continues, to "westernize" Asia by opening it up to European influence.
From Early European History by Webster, Hutton
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