While in the service of Spain, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European voyage of discovery to circumnavigate the globe. As a boy, Magellan studied mapmaking and navigation.

Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal ... The Portuguese court was not interested in Magellan's plan for a voyage to the Spice Islands via the Americas. Magellan took his idea to the Spanish ...

They argue that Ferdinand Magellan, the commander of the first ... allowed him to claim the title of commander of the first voyage around the globe. Although not an astronomer, Magellan did ...

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