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    birthplace is in Italy. In Italian he is known today as Giovanni Caboto‚ in English as John Cabot‚ in French as Jean Cabot‚ and in Spanish as Juan Caboto. The non-Italian forms reflect references to him in the related 15th-century documents. Only one set of documents has been found bearing his signature. These are Venetian testamentary documents of 1484‚ on which he signed as "Zuan Chabotto"‚ "Zuan" being a form of "John" typical to Venice.[3] That he continued to use this form in England‚ at least among

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    Meg Cabot: A True Author Outline I. INTRODUCTION i. Attention getter ii. Presenting Meg Cabot II. BODY iii. Origins of Meg Cabot iv. The Princess Series a. Motivation v. An early obsession vi. New form of writing III. CONCLUSION vii. One-woman sensation viii. Multiple genres ix. Holding on Meggin Patricia Cabot: A True Author Ever encountered a book where you just want to smash it against

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    nations would create new contacts. 2. Contacts breed involvement. 3. Involvement meant war. 4. League of Nations might be able to control US military personnel C. What happened? 1. The Treaty as you can imagine received enormous opposition. Henry Cabot Lodge and Alfred Beveridge strongly denounced the treaty‚ especially Article Ten which called upon the US to support League actions. Wilson campaigned vigorously and gave 37 speeches in 29 cities in a span of only three weeks. He declared that US soldiers

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    John Cabot is who I chose for my essay. I chose him because he seemed a interesting choice and I wanted to learn about someone new. John Cabot was born in c. 1450 and died in c. 1499. He became an explorer because when he was eleven he moved to Venice from Genoa and learned sailing and navigation from Italian seamen and nearby merchants. His father‚ Giulio Caboto was a spice merchant. In c. 1474 John Cabot married a girl named Mattea and later in life had three children‚ Ludovico‚ Sancto‚ and Sebastiano

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    Santiago Baca talks about the impression of Mexicans stealing jobs from rightful American workers. He uses descriptive words to show the intensity of his feelings towards the assumptions made about Mexicans. In the movie Crash‚ there is a part where John Ryan‚ a clearly racist cop‚ interacting with Shaniqua‚ who holds a superior position in an insurance company. The dispute happens when she denies his insurance to help his father who is clearly in pain‚ because of the unnecessary and racist comments

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    Motives of Exploration

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    One of the motives of explorers to explore the new world was to wanting to gain knowledge of the new world. Some of the documents that support this are documents one‚ four and six. One and six are very alike because both Christopher Columbus and John Cabot were sponsored by their kings and queens to go on an exploration to gain knowledge about the new world. In the time period of 1450 to 1600 explorers needed their rulers to sponsor their voyage because‚ well the rulers are the people who wanted

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    accompany. Discuss two reasons for your choices. Four west European explores that traveled to the New World. {draw:frame} {draw:frame} Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 – 5/20/1506 Jacques Cartier (12/31/1491 – 9/1/1557) {draw:frame} John Cabot_ (c. 1450 – c. 1498)_ Pedro Álvares Cabral_ (c. 1468 – c.1520)_ The race to find new spice and travel routes spurred a very exciting time in history which eventually lead to the founding and settling of New World. These discoveries lead

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    John Cabot Research Paper

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    knowledge about who actually discovered that area and land. Well‚ a very talented sailor discovered that field whose name was John Cabot. Giovanni Cabot (John Cabot) was a Genoese explorer and navigator who explored the Eastern coast of Canada in C.1497 with the permission and supervision of King Henry VII. Giovanni was born in C.1450 and passed away around C.1500. Cabot was an early merchant with no sailing experience but studied and had an interest in sailing. After countless years of being a

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    John Cabot Research Paper

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    John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer who is popularly credited as the modern discoverer of Canada‚ or at least the region that would become that nation. In 1497‚ he set sail from Bristol on his ship the Matthew looking for a sea route to Asia. He ended up in the North American mainland‚ he and his men being the first Europeans since the Vikings verifiably known to have done so. King Henry VII of England gave him a grant: "full and free authoritie‚ leave‚ and power‚ to sayle to all

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    The Cabot Family

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    family named the Cabots. The Cabots were a stoic and private family‚ that rarely interacted with the fellow residents of Rutherford. There were four family members: Megan‚ John‚ and their twelve-year old twin daughters‚ Allison and Alice. The family‚ was in a word‚ peculiar. They would often stare outside of their windows from their living room. The family would sit there for hours without talking to each other and would suddenly vanish. This particular summer‚ a tragedy struck the Cabot family on July

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