April 26 and 27 have marked a variety of significant moments throughout history, spanning scientific breakthroughs, political ...

It has a bustling art scene ... you can visit the site where Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition landed in 1520. The Nao Victoria Museum features a replica of the ship that circumnavigated the ...

While we can cite numerous famous palaces in Italy and throughout Europe known for their opulence, I have yet to visit one that represents in so dramatic a fashion the accomplishments of Italian ...

The 748ft-long ‘Dark Island’ ship is named after the Outer Hebrides ... following the routes of Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Francis Drake and James Cook. After this, residents ...

a 16th-century tribal chieftain in the Philippines known to have slain the famed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Who is Lapu-Lapu, and why is he being celebrated by Filipino migrants in ...

So intrigued was Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan with the colossal Tehuelche warrior who greeted his ship on the southern shores of Argentina in 1520 that he kidnapped two of his kind ...

ON April 26, the Filipino immigrant community in Vancouver, Canada, held a festival honoring Lapu-Lapu, the Mactan chieftain who vanquished Ferdinand Magellan and his men in battle in April 1521. What ...

The earliest recorded circumnavigators, Ferdinand Magellan, Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish, had to contend with previously unmapped currents and winds. With the advent of sailing ships and ...

The festival, celebrated especially in the central Philippines, honours Datu Lapu-Lapu, the Filipino chieftain who famously defeated Spanish forces led by Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of ...