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Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) pushes through a grueling fight with reigning heavyweight champion Mason 'The Line' Dixon (Antonio Tarver).Subscribe: https...
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Dec 18, 2009 · The 16th-century Spanish conquistador and explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa helped establish the first stable settlement on the South American continent at Darién, on the coast of the Isthmus of...
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to...
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Balboa had first sailed to the New World in 1500, and in September 1510 established the first European settlement in the mainland Americas.
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Jul 5, 2022 · Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) was a Spanish conquistador who famously discovered the Pacific Ocean after crossing the isthmus of Panama in 1513. An utterly ruthless adventurer and colonizer, Balboa...
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- Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean when he crossed the isthmus of Panama in 1513.
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa's impact on the world was that, in discovering the Pacific Ocean, he restarted the search for a western sea route to Asia. He...
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa was executed by the Spanish governor of Panama on charges of treason, but the real reason was to dispose of a dangerous rival.
Apr 11, 2017 · Born in or near the year 1457, the Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first European to see the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean. He sighted the ocean in 1513 from a mountaintop in what is now Panama.
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–January 15, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, colonial governor, and Conquistador. He is known principally for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to see and then reach the Pacific coastline of the New World.
