The expedition to the Spice Islands becomes an unexpectedly long, arduous trip for Ferdinand Magellan and his crew. While he believed the Islands to be only 600 nautical miles away from the tip of ...
If you ask most people to name the first person to circumnavigate the globe, they will likely answer Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese mariner who sailed on behalf of Spain in 1519. But Magellan ...
Filipino director Lav Diaz has hinted that a short version of his long-awaited feature starring Gael García Bernal as 16th Century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan could premiere in Cannes this ...
Ferdinand Magellan's ambitious 1519 voyage, funded by Spain, aimed to find a western route to the Spice Islands. Despite ...
In these days of rapidly expanding globalization, it’s getting harder to travel with the sense of discovery that comes from going places nobody has been before, as explorers did in the 15th and 16th ...
In “Uncharted,” now in theaters, Nathan Drake (Tom Holland), and his somewhat begrudging new partner Sully (Mark Wahlberg) hop from country to country, looking for the proverbial X that marks the spot ...
Hollywood actor Danny Trejo (“Machete,” “Con Air,” “Heat”) has been cast for the role of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in “1521,” an upcoming historical epic that charts the pre-colonial era ...
Perhaps you had never heard of Tacloban before last week's monster typhoon pummeled the provincial capital in the central Philippines. Yet it has a rich history that includes Ferdinand Magellan's stop ...
Correction: The Marianas History Conference will be held virtually. Other information was published in a previous version of this story. On March 6, the island and the world will commemorate the 500th ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – A sharp-eyed North Shore resident recently caught a rare sight in the waters off of Staten Island: a ship belonging to famous Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Well, not ...
Lisbon’s Tower of Belem is so well-placed on the side of Portugual’s Tagus river that one can easily imagine its historical use as a defensive tower. In these extraordinary times, when the globe’s ...
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