About Ferdinand Magellan. Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer best known for planning and leading the 1519–1522 ...

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 ...

Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer best known for planning and leading the 1519–1522 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. During this expedition, he became the first European to encounter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Filipino director Lav Diaz has hinted that a short version of his long-awaited feature starring Gael García Bernal as 16th Century ...

A coalition of astronomers is pushing to rename the Milky Way’s closest neighboring galaxies, arguing that the Portuguese explorer they are named after was a “murderer” who had nothing to do with ...

Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is best known for leading the expedition that became the first to circumnavigate the globe. But Magellan didn’t survive the journey himself. In the spring of ...

In November 1520, when Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan came out from the storm-tossed waters of the strait which now bears his name, he encountered a vast expanse of calm sea. According to the ...

You get a new sense of respect for cloves and nutmeg watching “Magellan’s Crossing,” part of the new season of the long-running PBS series “Secrets of the Dead.” The yearslong voyage depicted—along ...

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 ...

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