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Poles may have been amang the first Euroreans ever to journey to the New World they sailed with the Viking ships in the 11 th century also a few Poles made the transatlantic journey with Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the German ship Mary and Margaret(1608)Today ,the 8 million people in the United States who claim Polish ancestry represents one of the nation's largers ethnic groups.

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