CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH: Photo taken 30 April 1991 shows part of the city of Chittagong after it was flooded following the worst cyclone to hit the nation in over 20 years. A strong cyclone with a packing winds of up to 230 kms (143 mile) per hour, began battering the southeastern Bangladesh coast 19 May, destroying houses and uprooting trees and electric poles. AFP PHOTO/FILES (Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images)

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In the 15th century, Europeans began to sail west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of new routes to China and the East, but in the process they discovered what they labeled a "New World," although Indigenous people had lived there for centuries. Other explorers have pushed the limits of flight and seafaring, and traversed the frozen Continent of Antarctica.

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