Some of these explorers, like Christopher Columbus, are both celebrated and vilified today. Others, like Ferdinand Magellan and Francisco Pizarro, were met with violent and untimely deaths.

The explorer Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines in 1521. His name was Ferdinand Magellan, known for his voyage around the world. He claimed the islands of the Philippines as a Spanish ...

Virginia executed a condemned killer, Timothy Spencer, in the first case in which DNA testing was used to obtain a conviction ...

Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal into an influential ... The letters he sent to Magellan about the place would change the explorer's life. Back in Portugal, Magellan fell out of favour ...

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 ...

Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines as he attempted to expand Spanish colonization in the region.

Award-winning Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s nine-hour film about the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is ...

The series begins with a song celebrating two great explorers - Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan. We meet our presenters, Jenny and Wayne, before setting our chronometers to travel to ...

Lav Diaz's biopic Magellan, starring Gael García Bernal, will be unveiled in the Cannes Première selection at the 2025 ...

We meet our presenters, Jenny and Wayne, before setting our chronometers to travel to the year 1492 to meet Christopher Columbus. You must enable JavaScript to play ...