Explorers
His circumnavigation of the globe inaugurated an era of coinflict with the Spanish and in 1585, sparked the beginning of the Anglo-Spanish War. And no, he’s not a rapper.
Francis Drake
Over his career, this heart-breaker from Gainesville sold more than 80 million records worldwide making him one of the best-selling artists of all time.
Tom Petty
Rather than using wheels, tanks came to prominence in the early 20th-century for providing protection alongside mobility, relying on these to smoothly traverse all terrains.
Tracks
Santiago, an aging man, goes on a quest to catch a giant marlin in a 1952 classic written by this man.
Ernest Hemingway
On 11 October 1492, after spotting immense flocks of birds, Columbus changed course due west and sailed through the night. The following morning a lookout on the Pinta spotted land in what is now this country.
Bahamas
Faheem Rashad Najm, known professionally by this name, was born in Tallahassee and is best known for popularizing the use of Auto-Tune - maybe he’ll even “Buy U a Drank”
T-Pain
This man’s late-15th century drawings of what some describe as a “tank” show a man-powered, wheeled vehicle surrounded by cannons.
This author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 and is famous for works such as The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.
John Steinbeck
Europe and Asia were first linked when he used an ocean route that rounded the southern tip of Africa.
Vasco da Gama
On December 6, 1928, about to board a train to Florida, he received news that his father had killed himself. Devastated, having earlier written telling him not to worry about financial difficulties, the letter arrived just minutes after the suicide.
Ernest Hemingway
This 2001 Emmy winning TV series featured tanks like the Shermans and Cromwells. Now how come there was only one season?
Band of Brothers
This horror author was declared unfit for the Vietnam draft due to high blood pressure, limited vision, and flat feet.
Stephen King
After sighting the west coast of this island, this Dutchman named his discovery Van Diemen’s Land. Today, it bears his own name.
Abel Tasman
Nicknamed “Prime Time”, you probably know him as the head coach for the Colorado Buffaloes, but we bet you didn’t know he was also a baseball outfielder for nine seasons in Major League Baseball!
Deion Sanders
During the 119 BC Battle of Mob, the Han general Wei Qing led his army through a fatiguing expeditionary march through this desert, only to find Yizhixie chanyu’s main force waiting to encircle them on the other side. They forced a stalemate using armoured have wagons knows as “Wu Gang Wagon”.
Gobi
Watch your six! This author is known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War—and even has a video game named after one of his books.
Tom Clancy
For being the first European to view the harbour of this city, the Verrazano bridge was named for him four centuries later.
New York
She and earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her portrayal of a character on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm she shares a first name with, and married into a prominent American political family.
Cheryl Hines
The most numerous and only German tank to remain in continuous production throughout World War II, this tank was the brainchild of armoured warfare theorist Heinz Guderian.
Panzer IV
This Pulitzer Prize–winning author wrote Rabbit, Run and The Witches of Eastwick.
John Updike