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• the first pilgrimage made by Christopher Columbus upon discovering America was to the Royal monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe, the principal house of the monastic order of the Hieronymites?
• the samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga led the first Japanese Embassy to the Americas and Europe in 1615?
• the first Navy Minister of Imperial Russia, Nikolay Mordvinov, started his career serving on English ships in America?
• actor Frederick Baltimore Calvert toured America lecturing on the English poets and then toured England talking about America?
• Augustus Dickens, the brother of English novelist Charles Dickens, abandoned his blind wife in London and ran away to America with another woman?
• Dr. John Stevenson, 18th century Scottish merchant and developer of Baltimore, was known as the "American Romulus"?
• botanist Leonard John Brass was born and died in Australia, served in the Canadian Army, became an American citizen and did most of his fieldwork in New Guinea?