a boy who sailed around the world?
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The Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone. Recounts the voyage of Robin Lee Graham, a California sixteen-year-old, who spent nearly five years sailing alone around the world.
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There was once a boy who liked nothing more in the world than to win. He loved winning at whatever it may be: football, cards, video games... everything. And because he couldn't stand losing, he had become an expert in all kinds of tricks and cheating.
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['Indian Ocean Gyre (generally flowing counter-clockwise)', 'North Atlantic Gyre.', 'North Pacific Gyre.', 'South Atlantic Gyre.', 'South Pacific Gyre.']
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A man is on ship which is moving in east direction with speed 60km/hr. Waves of ocean is taking ship towards west with speed 20km/hr.
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Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493. On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. ... Columbus brought back small amounts of gold as well as native birds and plants to show the richness of the continent he believed to be Asia.
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Kon-Tiki. With five loyal friends in tow, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails a fragile balsa wood raft along an ancient path some 4,300 miles across the Pacific. This dramatization of Thor Heyerdahl's legendary expedition garnered an Oscar nod for Best Foreign Language Film.
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(T/F) The first country to launch large-scale voyages of exploration was Spain. FALSE, it was Portugal. (T/F) Explorer Amerigo Vespucci concluded that the land discovered by Columbus was not part of Asia, but a new land. TRUE.
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Anh arrived in Australia at age 3 on a small fishing boat packed with 47 other Vietnamese refugees. Having survived pirate attacks, dehydration, and internment in a Malaysian refugee camp, young Anh came through this adversity with a determination to make the most out of life.
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The minimum age to sail is 6 months on most itineraries. Children must be at least 12 months old on all transatlantic, transpacific, Hawaii and South American cruises, as well as other voyages and cruisetours with three consecutive sea days or more.
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The First Circumnavigation of the Globe. One of the most noted of Portuguese-born explorers was Fernão de Magalhães (anglicized as "Magellan"), who instigated and organized the first circumnavigation of the globe from 1519 to 1522.
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Caillou is a 4-year-old boy who delights in the small wonders of the world around him, embellishing everything he sees with his rich imagination. Surrounded by his parents, his little sister, Rosie, his grandparents and friends his age, Caillou discovers the world and just can't wait to grow up!
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A British man who spent 5 months at sea has become the first person to swim 1,780 miles around the island of Great Britain. Ross Edgley, 33, set off from Kent, on the southeast coast of England, on June 1.
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In 1609, the merchants of the Dutch East India Company hired English explorer Henry Hudson to find the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Hudson navigated along the North American coast looking for a more southern, ice-free route across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean.
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Upwind sailing is sailing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing. It includes two points of sail: Close-Hauled and Close Reaching. Sailing across the wind is called Beam Reaching. Downwind sailing refers to sailing in the direction to which the wind is blowing. It includes both Broad Reaching and Running.
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In the 14th century, the Moroccan wanderer Ibn Battuta spent nearly 30 years traveling some 75,000 miles across Africa, the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia. The title of “history's most famous traveler” usually goes to Marco Polo, the great Venetian wayfarer who visited China in the 13th century.
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Ben Lecomte has swum over 1,753 miles through the Pacific Ocean since he set out from the Japanese coast at Choshi in June. ... This is not the first cross-ocean trip for the swimmer, who's been paddling his way from Japan to California with the help of a couple of flippers on his feet.
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Twenty-nine-year-old mechanical engineer Nicholas Afedi Donkoh drove all the way from his house in France to his hometown in Ghana to prove a point: that everyone deserves an adventure.