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John Cabot
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Noun1.John Cabot - Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)John Cabot - Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)
Giovanni Cabato, Cabot
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40 Hereford Giovanni Caboto, known in English as John Cabot, was an Italian navigator and explorer who is generally credited as the first European to discover North America in 1497.
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Don't forget, Canada being a country that was "discovered" in 1497 by John Cabot (born Giovanni Caboto in Venice), our perception of time and man-made objects differs substantially from those across the ocean.
I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque by Taylor, Drew Hayden / Windspeaker
The Norse had explored and wintered in North America some 500 years before Giovanni Caboto, a Genoese explorer whom the British called John Cabot, rediscovered the land in 1497.
The bounty of the deep by Canada and the World Backgrounder
 
 
 
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