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Welcome to the Making of a Nation -- American history in VOA Special English.

In the United States, October 9th is observed as Leif Erickson Day.

It honors the Norse explorer who sailed around the northeastern coast of what we now call North America about 1,000 years ago.

Leif Erickson and his crew returned home to Greenland with news of a place he called " Vinland" .

Following his explorations, a few settlements were built.

Experts digging in eastern Canada in the 1960s found the remains of a village with houses like those in Greenland, Iceland and Norway.

But the Norse did not establish any permanent settlements in North America.

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