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1 posted on 10/30/2020 8:55:50 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
Magellan was Portuguese, but sailing for Spain. Two ships might have made it back but one was seized by the Portuguese in the Spice Islands. Eighteen men made it back to Spain on the one ship. They couldn't understand why they were one day off as to what day of the month it was.

The Magellanic Clouds are named for Magellan. Amazing that after all those thousands of years of people living in the Southern Hemisphere no one had noticed them before. :-)

2 posted on 10/30/2020 9:13:54 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Borges
the round of the world expedition of Fernando Magellan...

His name was Ferdinand, not Fernando. That’s a pretty important detail, don’t ya think?

3 posted on 10/30/2020 9:20:28 AM PDT by Radio Free Tuscaloosa (God Bless...America!! - Adm. Jeremiah Denton (RIP))
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To: Borges

The people who lived in that area knew it was there.


6 posted on 10/30/2020 9:27:02 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: Borges

I don’t think ghe Incas are celebrating.


10 posted on 10/30/2020 11:20:13 AM PDT by .44 Special (Tiamid Buacach!)
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