James Oliver Rigney, Jr., a.k.a. Robert Jordan (born in 1948) is best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Timefantasy series. Jordan holds an undergraduate degree in physics from The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina. He is a history buff and served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army.
... Fernando Cortes, conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico; sent out expeditions to Baja California
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (died 1997), French marine biologist and ...