Sir Walter Raleigh was the first Englishman who tried to colonized the "New World". Raleigh was a writer, poet, soldier, politician, and an explorer. In 1594 he sailed to South America and published his experiences. He set a colony close to Roanoke Island, which was named Virginia.
I can't write you a paragraph but I can give you some thing about Khufu he was a Pharos to the Egyptians he reigned for a very long time and he had the Egyptians build the pyramids for him