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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indigenous peoples already had their own names for the galaxies named after the 16th-century Portuguese explorer For centuries Ferdinand Magellan has been accorded a rare privilege. The explorer’s ...

This year, we will be commemorating the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in the Philippines. Aside from Christianity, of course, the Spanish also brought us food. Just as we introduced them to ours. Here ...

Names have significance, especially when they’re written in the stars. A group of astronomers is coalescing around an idea to rename two neighbors of the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic ...

Older Filipinos will remember Yoyoy Villame’s song, with a sticky tune and lyrics, poking fun at Ferdinand Magellan. That was in 1972 and Magellan was Villame’s first recording, launching his ...

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 ...