Many of us look back at our school days fondly, but have you ever wondered how much of what you learned was actually true? It turns out that some of the historical facts you've held onto might be ...

Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time. This is what Magellan's carrack looked like P Pulse News Agency ...

ESTATE OF HELGA SCHNITKER, Deceased (21-4795/A/B/C) — The proposed compromise of causes of action related to decedent’s wrongful death and conscious pain and suffering against the settling defendants ...

The United States is a proudly multicultural nation. One of our founding precepts — E pluribus unum (Out of many, one) — underscores this storied diversity. Nevertheless, naysaying revisionists and ...

A few weeks ago, the Vatican formally disowned the Doctrine of Discovery, a development that immediately turned my thoughts to Mario Bucci. I had been thinking off and on about Bucci, the current ...

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“Secretly dispatched by Queen Elizabeth to circumnavigate the globe and later called upon to save England from the Spanish Armada, Francis Drake was a hot-tempered, red-haired rouge who made his ...

The story of Francis Drake is truly one of the most interesting, complex and heroic. The first English claim on what would become the United States—on the Pacific coast—is notable. Yet the events, ...

Francis Drake, son of an English clergyman of modest means, was a pirate, an explorer, a navigator, a world traveler to beat all world travelers, a vice admiral of the small but fast British Fleet ...

Francis Drake was the first sea captain to circumnavigate the globe—it took him three years (1577-80). In the course of his voyage, he boarded Spanish ships, raided Spanish colonies in South America, ...