Award-winning Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s nine-hour film about the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month. The festival ...

Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, leading Spanish forces, attempted to subdue the island’s natives but was met with fierce opposition. Lapulapu, refusing to submit to Spanish authority ...

A driver plowed through a crowd at a street festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver late Saturday night, killing at least ...

Lapu-Lapu is a myth.” That’s the bold claim made by multiawarded independent filmmaker Lav Diaz in his latest work, “Magellan ...

The festival was also held in commemoration of Lapu-Lapu, as he and his men defeated the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in Mactan, Cebu in 1521. “I am heartbroken to hear what took place ...

A mobile base called DHV Magellan (Deep-Tar Hunting Vessel), named after the explorer Ferdinand Magellan who travelled around the world, functions as a hub for the player. As the name DHV Magellan ...

Joel Villanueva on Monday, shot moments after the tragedy, which tinged the Lapu-Lapu Festival commemorating a 16th-century anti-colonial chief who killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.

Also on this date: In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines as he attempted to expand Spanish colonization in the region. In 1813, the ...

2. Magellan's Cross Just a short distance from Fort San Pedro lies Magellan's Cross. The wooden cross was planted by Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan upon his arrival in the country in 1521. "When ...