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James Cook

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/George Vancouver
		George Vancouver's first voyage to the Pacific was aboard Captain James Cook's HMS Resolution on Cook's second voyage of exploration, from 1772-1775.
		The next vessel Vancouver served in was the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Fame.
		The Fame was one of the vessels participating in the British victory in the Battle of the Saintes in 1782.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/George_Vancouver (1001 words)

	Space Shuttle Discovery Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Discovery has been chosen twice as the return to flight orbiter, first as the return to flight orbiter after the 1986 Challenger disaster in 1988, and as the orbiter for the return to flight mission in July 2005, after the 2003 Columbia disaster.
		Discovery also carried Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn, who was 77 at the time, back into space during STS-95 on October 29, 1998, making him the oldest human being to venture into space.
		Discovery was on launch pad 39B at Cape Canaveral in preparation for its July 4 launch date, following rollout on May 19.
	www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/Space_Shuttle_Discovery (1261 words)

	George Vancouver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the age of fifteen, he traveled to the Pacific aboard HMS Resolution, on Captain James Cook's second voyage (1772-1775).
		He was then posted aboard the sloop HMS Martin, on patrol in the English Channel.
		HMS Discovery (not Cook's ship) was purchased specifically for this mission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Vancouver (918 words)

	Overview of Belizean History
		Ten years after the discovery of the New World, Admiral D. Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus), on his fourth voyage to the area in 1502, was in the area of St Georges Caye (Punta Caxinas, the name given it by Columbus) off Belize City.
		Uring, in connection with one of His Majesty's ships, was responsible for bringing one of the first loads of mahogany to England and some of this mahogany was used in the Board Room of the then present Old Admiralty (circa 1723).
		The name of this ship is unknown, but some of its explorers suggest that it may have been the "Oxford", one of Sir Henry Morgan's privateers.
	ambergriscaye.com /fieldguide/history2.html (7867 words)

	Discovery
		Discovery (observation), observing or finding something unknown to one's culture
		Discovery (law), a process in courts of law
		Discovery One, a fictional space craft from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/di/discovery.html (122 words)

	Vancouver, WA - City Guide Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The expedition was not the first to cross North America, but was roughly a decade after the expedition of Alexander Mackenzie, the first European to cross North America by land north of Mexico, in 1793.
		Every year ships would come from London (via the Pacific) to drop off supplies and trade goods in exchange for the furs.
		It was the nexus for the fur trade on the Pacific Coast, whose influence reached from Alaska to California and from the Rocky Mountains to the Hawaiian Islands.
	www.vancouverusaguide.com /page.php?ID=83 (2868 words)

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