Nationality & Place of birth: Portuguese, Sabrosa, Kingdom of Portugal
Date of birth: c. 4 February 1480
Parents : Rodrigo de Magalhães & Alda de Mesquita
Family: Wife-Beatriz Barbosa, Sons-Rodrigo/Ruy de Masaganhes
Ferdinand Magellan, born ca. 1480 in Sabrosa in the province of Trás-os-Montes in northeastern Portugal, came from a family of minor Portuguese nobility.
It was the year 192 B.C. when an Aetolian army entered Sparta. He did not arrive as an invader but as an ally, after a request for help made by the Spartan king Nabis to make up for the state of weakness in which the country had been left after the defeat before a coalition of Romans, Macedonians an
The Wealth Program was one of many plans developed during the Cold War aimed at annihilating the adversary. The goal was to develop a flying vehicle-missile drone that would fly for a very long time propelled by a thruster-type engine powered by a nuclear reactor. In early 1957 the US Air Force c
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