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Aboard Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage of 1519 to 1522, the greatest expedition of the Age of Discovery and the first to successfully circumnavigate the globe, was a single Englishman. Andrew of Bristol was the master gunner on the flagship, Trinidad. He made it across the newly-minted Pacific Ocean and, in doing so, unknowingly traversed the deepest part of Earth’s seas, the Mariana Trench.
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The vote comes two months after voters in Barre City and Barre Town turned down a smaller version of the budget, one that school administrators said would have forced cuts across the district.