Wednesday, September 5, 2007

200

Today I learned about Ferdinand Magellan, mainly that he took 270 people with him on his journey to circumnavigate the globe, and only 18 made it back to Spain alive. Yikes. (Magellan was not one of the 18, by the way.) Also, he took five ships with him initially: Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepcion, Victoria, and Santiago. Three years after they left, only Victoria made it back.

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