• And Mr Pinta Gama told me that the Latin American bloc is not intending to hold back.

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  • The town's beaches have been a tidy earner since 1498, when Vasco da Gama was welcomed ashore.

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  • Da Gama had no great plans to be a sailor and to see the world, Dr Reis said.

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  • Marco Polo was on there, as was Sir Francis Drake, Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Lewis and Clark and Shackleton.

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  • " His Portuguese counterpart, Jaime Gama, said the two sides had compromised from "principled positions to a common ground.

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  • Gama's bylaws stipulate that no one may have more than 15% of the voting rights in the proposed new company.

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  • The answers aren't clear yet, but Alatas and Gama have agreed to meet soon to "intensify discussions" ahead of another U.N. session next month.

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  • When Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1498, he opened direct access for Europe to India and the Arabian Gulf.

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  • Somehow, I don't think at, say, down at the Explorer's Club, they debate regularly about who's the better explorer: Vasco da Gama or Robert Peary?

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  • This survey opened with a sight of the Vasco da Gama bridge, built to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the explorer's famous voyage of discovery.

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  • In 1497, Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama became the first to sail round the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a sea route to India.

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  • Carrefour and Gama say they are preparing proposals for Cade.

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  • And while some of us might fancy ourselves as adventurers, we have for the most part degenerated into cheap-flight-enabled tourists Vasco da Gama and Ibn Battuta would not be impressed.

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  • Of course, Vasco da Gama had sailed east in search of more than spices, and Macau served admirably, too, as a launch pad in the quest for Christian souls.

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  • Su cometido es respaldar la labor de la UNESCO con los aportes de una diversidad de perspectivas de distintas regiones del mundo y una amplia gama de partes interesadas.

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  • Clearly our community will be heard and respected as programs such as the No Plane No Gain efforts of GAMA and NBAA continue to communicate the benefits of Business Aviation.

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  • The proposal was sent to Carrefour on June 27 by a Brazilian company named Gama, which is owned by private investment bank BTG Pactual, run by Forbes billionaire lister Andre Esteves.

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  • Even the Mother of Sao Salvador church next to the castle, where da Gama was ordained into the Order of Santiago when he was 11 or 12, has been entirely rebuilt.

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  • "Similar technologies are limited by cost of materials, use of noxious chemicals in the application or loss of effectiveness after a few washings, " said Gennaro Gama from the University of Georgia Research Foundation (UGARF).

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  • At the United Nations Global Youth Leadership Summit, which took place in New York in October of last year, Da Gama invited black celebrities to come to Africa to be the face of malaria.

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  • The piece was commissioned by the city of Lisbon to commemorate 500 years of Portuguese discovery, and has a loose plot, more or less following the voyages of Vasco da Gama to Africa and India.

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  • Da Gama achieved fame and fortune when he led the 1497 expedition that opened up the sea route to India, which had long been the source of the spices that were in demand among European aristocracy.

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  • From the castle ramparts, look out to sea and you will see the wide expanse of Vasco da Gama beach, spreading out for several kilometres against the backdrop of enormous cranes in the busy port beyond.

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  • The original church was ordered to be rebuilt by da Gama soon after his second return from India in 1503, at a time when his growing sense of self-importance was becoming a nuisance to the authorities.

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  • Louis Da Gama was one of them.

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  • The achievements of trailblazers like Vasco da Gama, James Cook or Christopher Columbus can never be surpassed, so some might argue that real explorers are a thing of the past... adrenalin junkies with nothing left to search for?

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  • La clave para un periodismo profesional y provechoso reside en responder eficazmente a las necesidades y deseos de todos los lectores y espectadores, presentando una amplia gama de puntos de vista y de voces, incluidos los de las mujeres.

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  • In early 1997, about a year after sentencing, Sheikh Abdel Rahman's Egyptian terrorist organization, al-Gama'at al-Islamia (the Islamic Group), issued a statement declaring "all American interests legitimate targets" for "legitimate jihad" until the release of all those convicted terrorists, beginning with their beloved leader.

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  • In 1997, members of Abdel Rahman's organization (Gama al Islamiyah, or the Islamic Group, which is designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization) murdered more than 60 tourists at Luxor, Egypt, and inserted notes in the body cavities of several victims demanding the Blind Sheik's release.

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  • This week a lacklustre domestic season was drawing to a tarnished close, as lawyers for Vasco da Gama, a Rio de Janeiro club, battled to bend the rules to ensure that Edmundo, their temperamental striker, could play in the second leg of the league-championship final, despite having been sent off in the first game on December 14th.

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