MEXICO CITY — Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnavigation expedition led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. Five centuries later, a pandemic looms ...

E urope first encountered the Philippines in 1521, when Ferdinand Magellan claimed the archipelago for Spainand ended up dead after a battle with local chieftain Lapu Lapu. Jessica Hagedorn’s ...

The ship was named for a Basque captain who completed the 1519-1522 circumnavigation with 17 of the roughly 240 crewmembers who began it, led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan.

Lapu-Lapu is a myth.” That’s the bold claim made by multiawarded independent filmmaker Lav Diaz in his latest work, “Magellan”—a film set to premiere at the prestigious Cannes Film ...

Hollywood actor Danny Trejo (“Machete,” “Con Air,” “Heat”) has been cast for the role of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in “1521,” an upcoming historical epic that charts ...

The ship was named for a Basque captain who completed the 1519-1522 circumnavigation with 17 of the roughly 240 crewmembers who began it, led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan.

Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnavigation of the expedition led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. Five centuries later, the pandemic looms as a ...