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Map of the Indian Ocean from the Miller Atlas, commissioned by Portugal's King Manuel I in 1519. By Lopo Homem, Jorge Reinel, Pedro Reinel and Antonio de Holanda. See the redbubble product page.

BBNN: The Baugu Baugu Department of Domestic Tourism (BBDDT) has set a date for the launch of its new Baugu Baugu Sunset Sweepstakes...

Map of the Indian Ocean from the Miller Atlas, commissioned by Portugal's King Manuel I in 1519. By Lopo Homem, Jorge Reinel, Pedro Reinel and Antonio de Holanda. See the redbubble product page.

Bas-relief carvings at the Borobudur temple on Java give us a brief look into the lives of eighth-century Javanese, including the ships used in regional trade in the period.

Research notes. When George Neville [1] was installed as Archbishop of York in 1465, the event was celebrated with a feast that would...

A trite legend but accurate anecdote for the plant’s history, in the early 1800s people across America and Europe were terrified by an...

Both Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days and the survivors of the Magellan-Elcano expedition circumnavigated the globe, the...

March 6, 1521: Ferdinand Magellan's fleet reached Guam after a deadly three-month crossing of the Pacific Ocean. In explaining the...

A handful of medieval travelogues were the closest thing Ferdinand Magellan had to a travel guide when he sought a westward route to Asia...