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 ...
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 ...
Ferdinand Magellan's ambitious 1519 voyage, funded by Spain, aimed to find a western route to the Spice Islands. Despite ...
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 is not given proper credit by historians. He is not included among the patron saints of fishing. The Portuguese maritime commander, flying the flag of Spain, was the first explorer ...
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 ...
MEXICO CITY — Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnavigation expedition led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. Five centuries later, a pandemic looms as a ...
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 ...