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Portugal is a country that has no coast along the Mediterranean Sea so the countrys advances in worldwide exploration centuries ago comes at no surprise. However, it was the passion and goals of one man who truly moved Portuguese exploration forward. ...
http://geography.about.com/od/historyofgeography/a/princehenry.htm
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- The Mappa Mundi
Mappa.Mundi Magazine was orginally created by Carl Malamud, Rebecca Hargrave, and Martin Lucas when they were with Invisible Worlds, then a fledging startup. The purpose of the magazine was to provide a forum for the discussion of visualization, mapp ...
http://mappa.mundi.net/locus/locus_011/
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- A Africans in America
The Excerpt from a PBS series examines Henrys role in opening routes for the trade of slaves. ...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p259b.html
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- A Prince Henry
Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans toPrince Henry explore Africa. In Henrys time, the ocean was very dangerous and Africa was a mysterious place that seemed to contain endless miles ...
http://www.mrdowling.com/610-henry.html
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- A Discoverers Web
Henry was born in 1394 as one of the sons of the Portuguese King John I, founder of the Aviz dynasty. In 1415 he and his brothers lead the Portuguese army in the conquest of Ceuta, a Muslim stronghold in Morocco. There he learned about the riches of ...
http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/henry.html
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