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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Bering, Vitus
 
SYLLABICATION:Ber·ing
PRONUNCIATION:  bîrng, bâr-, br- brng
DATES:1681–1741
Danish navigator and explorer who in 1728 sailed through the Bering Strait, proving (though he did not realize it at the time) that Asia and North America are separate continents.
 
 
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