President Donald J. Trump has announced that he has ordered the formation of a sixth branch of the U.S. military, adding the "Space Force" to the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines, and Navy. Trump made the announcement at a meeting of the National Space Council on June 18, saying that "It is not enough to merely have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space." According to Trump, the Department of Defense and Pentagon would "immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces… We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the space force, separate but equal…"
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A Chinese explorer reached America 72 years before Columbus and circled the globe a century before Magellan, according to British amateur historian Gavin Menzies.

Menzies read about an epic voyage undertaken by a Chinese admiral named Zheng He. From 1421 to 1423, backed by the Chinese emperor, Zheng He led more than 100 ships, armed with weapons and loaded with treasure, to the Middle East and Asia. Menzies thinks the admiral continued on to South America and also explored the Caribbean and the Sea of Cortez, near Baja California.
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