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This article does not state any source for the "recent research" that shows he discovered Brazil before Colombus. Gdo01 00:45, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Colombus never discovered Brazil... You mean Pedro Álvares Cabral. The Ogre 16:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Oops, I meant America. Gdo01 01:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
If you read much about early European exploration of the Americas, you soon learn (much to your weariness) that the Portuguese have claimed to discover everything. Just kept it a secret, or the Lisbon earthquake destroyed all the records, and so on. Mainstream historians buy very little of it. 69.108.230.116 15:13, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

DUARTE PACHECO PEREIRA wrote in this Book "ESMERALDO SITU ORBIS" his own Discovery of many lands in "Grande Terra Firme" in west(Great Land in West) in the "WEST"(New World) in 1498, in a Mission for the King Manuel. So, is no any speculation. He spoke and wrote about that - in a clearly sentence. Before this voyage, He (Duarte Pacheco Pereira) Negociate in Tordesillas in 1494 the Line in west. He was one of the Principal Men in Tordesillas. You believe that a perfect line from Amazonas Delta to "Laguna" infletion in Southern coast and the particular Number of 370 Milles was a "invention of no where" in Tordesillas by the Portuguese?

Remember that Columbus spend two weeks with King John II in Lisbon and Santarém(Val Paraíso) after his first Voyage in 1493 and what the King said to him about a great Mailand in South.