s0243e-VASCO da GAMA born 1460 or 69-12/24/1524 in Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo, Portugal, explorer, 1st Count of Vidigueira, successful in the European Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India
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Image from E. Benjamin Andrews History of the United States, from the Earliest Discovery of America to the Present Time, New York: Scribner's Sons, 1913