De Soto and his men explored the present area of Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas, often clashing with native tribes. In Norway, oil discoveries are made on the Caterpillar and Tellus and a gas discovery is made in the Barents Sea on the Skalle prospect. Also a Spanish cleric, Bartoleme de las Casas, wrote books, and lobbied the Spanish government on behalf of the natives. The results of this exploration are the discovery of several small oil and gas fields, and the commercial production of oil and gas from the Bredasdorp Basin.

He confirmed the existence of and mapped numerous islands, explored the northwest coast of North America, and proved to all but the most diehard believers in Terra Australis that whatever land existed in the far south was not habitable. Third, European settlements in the Americas grew at such a rate that the Europeans' descendants eventually outnumbered the Indians. Decades later, an interferometer at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii will play an important role in understanding the environments in which exoplanets form. 1925: Using the Hooker 100" Telescope in California, Edwin Hubble proves that galaxies are groups of stars like the Milky Way.

Then there was shouting and laughing and weeping, and all the kings came to the shore, and they led the heroes away to their homes and bewailed the valiant dead. However, little did they know that their way of life would change drastically once European explorers set foot on the American continents. Penicillin was injected and within days he made a remarkable recovery. To stay rich, European countries tried to export more goods than they imported.

From August 2007 to 2013, 23 discoveries (Odum, Ebony, Tweneboa, Sankofa, Dzata, Owo, Teak-1, Paradise-1, Banda-1, Gye Nyame, etc) have been made. Learn more about the lives and journeys of some of history's greatest explorers with the PBS World Explorers collection. The commandant at once took pity on Livingstone, but after a refreshing stay of ten days the English explorer started off westward to the coast. The Portuguese held the eastern route, the Spaniards the western route to the Spice Islands.

These hides we exposed to the sun first to soften them by putting them overboard for four or five days, after which we put them on the embers and ate them thus. The classification problems of astronomy will not go away: refined knowledge about what constitutes a planet will undoubtedly be useful in classifying the more than 170 planets now known to exist beyond our solar system, and the thousands that are sure to be discovered when the Kepler spacecraft launches in 2008.