Magellan was born in Sabrosa (near Vila Real, in the province of Trás-os-Montes of north Portugal) or in Porto. The son of Pedro Rui de Magalhães, the mayor of the town, and Alda de Mesquita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diogo de Sousa, named after his grandmother, and his sister Isabel. Magellan's parents died when he was ten. At 12, Magellan became a page to King John II and Queen Eleonora at the royal court at the capital of Lisbon, where his brother had gone two years before. Here, with his cousin Francisco Serrano, Ma ...

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Ferdinand Magellan, Ferdinand Magellan - Birth and early years, Ferdinand Magellan - Plans for the circumnavigation, Ferdinand Magellan - The journey, Ferdinand Magellan - The voyage, Ferdinand Magellan - The circumnavigation, Ferdinand Magellan - The return, Ferdinand Magellan - The discoveries

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Ferdinand Magellan, Ferdinand Magellan - Birth and early years, Ferdinand Magellan - Plans for the circumnavigation, Ferdinand Magellan - The journey, Ferdinand Magellan - The voyage, Ferdinand Magellan - The circumnavigation, Ferdinand Magellan - The return, Ferdinand Magellan - The discoveries

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Magellan reached Seville, the main port of Spain, on 20 October 1517, and from there went to Valladolid to see the teenaged king, Charles I (later Holy Roman Emperor Charles V). With the help of Juan de Aranda, one of the three chief officials of Seville's India House, and of other friends, especially Diogo Barbosa, a Portuguese and father of Duarte Barbosa, Magellan became naturalized as a Spaniard. Acquiring great influence in Seville, he gained the ear of Charles and the powerful Juan Rodriguez de Fons ...

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Ferdinand Magellan, Ferdinand Magellan - Birth and early years, Ferdinand Magellan - Plans for the circumnavigation, Ferdinand Magellan - The journey, Ferdinand Magellan - The voyage, Ferdinand Magellan - The circumnavigation, Ferdinand Magellan - The return, Ferdinand Magellan - The discoveries

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The peculiar circumstances connected with his birth are recorded in 1 Samuel 1:20. Hannah, one of the two wives of Elkanah, who came up to Shiloh to worship before the Lord, earnestly prayed to God that she might become the mother of a son. Her prayer was graciously granted; and after the child was weaned she brought him to Shiloh and consecrated him to the Lord as a perpetual Nazarite (1:23-2:11). Here his bodily wants and training were attended to by the women who served in the Tabernacle, while Eli cared for his religious education ...

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Samuel, Samuel - Name, Samuel - Birth and early years, Samuel - Philistines, Samuel - Fame and his influence, Samuel - Ark of the covenant, Samuel - Second battle, Samuel - Twenty years after, Samuel - End to Philistine oppression, Samuel - Jewish commonwealth, Samuel - Samuel's sons, Samuel - Death and aftermath

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Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, the son of Mary or Elizabeth Mylwaye (Mildmay ?) and her husband Edmund Drake (1518–1585), a Protestant farmer (who later became a preacher) and grandson of John Drake and Margaret Cole. He is often confused with his nephew Francis Drake (1573–1634) who was the son of Richard Drake and Ursula Stafford, grandson of John Drake (1500–1558) – Edmund's older brother – and Amy Grenville (1510–1577), and great-grandson of the same above-stated John Drake and Margaret Cole (cf. John White, no ...

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Francis Drake, Francis Drake - Birth and early years, Francis Drake - Conflict in the Caribbean, Francis Drake - Circumnavigation of the globe, Francis Drake - The Spanish Armada, Francis Drake - Final years, Francis Drake - Drake in popular culture

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Lassalle came from a prosperous Jewish family; his father was a silk-merchant and intended his son for a business career, sending him to the commercial school at Leipzig. Lassalle himself, however, had other plans and got himself transferred to university, first in Wroclaw and afterwards in Berlin. His favourite studies were philology and philosophy; he became a close follower of Hegel. Having completed his university studies in 1845, he began to write a work on Heraclitus from the Hegelian point of view; but it was s ...

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Ferdinand Lassalle, Ferdinand Lassalle - Early life, Ferdinand Lassalle - Return to Berlin, Ferdinand Lassalle - Founding of the ADAV, Ferdinand Lassalle - Death, Ferdinand Lassalle - Publications

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From 1946 to 1947, Marcos was a technical assistant to President Manuel Roxas. In the 1949 national elections, Marcos famously declared "Elect me as your congressman today, and I promise an Ilocano president in twenty years." He served for three consecutive terms in the House of Representatives (1949-59) and two consecutive terms in the Senate (1959-65). He also became the president of the Senate from 1962 to 1965. In 1954, he married Imelda Romualdez who late ...

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Ferdinand Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos - Early Life, Ferdinand Marcos - Military Career, Ferdinand Marcos - Early Political Career, Ferdinand Marcos - As President, Ferdinand Marcos - Martial Law and the Marcos Dictatorship, Ferdinand Marcos - Return of formal elections and the end of martial law, Ferdinand Marcos - Economic changes under the Marcos Administration, Ferdinand Marcos - Downfall of Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos - Legacy, Ferdinand Marcos - Orders and Decorations, Ferdinand Marcos - Quotations

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Ferdinand Marcos was born in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte to Don Mariano Marcos, a lawyer who was an assemblyman for Ilocos Norte, and Dona Josefa Quetulio Edralin, a teacher. He was the second of four children. His siblings were Pacifico, Elizabeth and Fortuna. He was of mixed Filipino (Ilocano), Chinese, and Japanese ancestry. He started his primary education in Sarrat Central School. He was transferred Shamrock Elementary School (Laoag), and finally to the Ermita Elementary School (Manila) when his father was elected as an Assemblyman in the Philippine Congre ...

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Ferdinand Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos - Early Life, Ferdinand Marcos - Military Career, Ferdinand Marcos - Early Political Career, Ferdinand Marcos - As President, Ferdinand Marcos - Martial Law and the Marcos Dictatorship, Ferdinand Marcos - Return of formal elections and the end of martial law, Ferdinand Marcos - Economic changes under the Marcos Administration, Ferdinand Marcos - Downfall of Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos - Legacy, Ferdinand Marcos - Orders and Decorations, Ferdinand Marcos - Quotations

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His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph of Austria-Este (sometimes called Francis Ferdinand in English) (December 18, 1863 – June 28, 1914) was born in Graz, Austria and was a Habsburg Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination by Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, Austrian-annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina, precipitated t ...

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Born in New York City, he was the son of two Russian immigrants, but his father died when he was only six. He began his journalism career at the age of twelve, when he came upon a woman who had jumped or fallen from the roof of his apartment building. After calling the police, he phoned the Bronx Home News and was paid $5 for his information. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the West Bronx, where he worked on the Clinton News, the school paper. He graduated from City College of New York. In January of 1967, he married Lisbeth Bamberger ...

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Daniel Schorr, Daniel Schorr - Birth and Early Years, Daniel Schorr - Journalism During the Cold War, Daniel Schorr - The 70's, Daniel Schorr - Career as an Elder Statesman of Journalism, Daniel Schorr - Trivia, Daniel Schorr - Awards, Daniel Schorr - Books by Daniel Schorr

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Hetty Green was born Henrietta Howland Robinson in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Her family were Quakers who owned a large whaling fleet but did not maintain an opulent lifestyle. At the age of two, she was living with her grandfather Gideon Howland. Because of his influence and that of her father, Edward Mott Robinson, and possibly because her mother Abby Howland was constantly ill, she took to her father's side and was reading financial papers to her father by the age of six. When she was 13, Hetty became the family bookkeeper. At ...

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Hetty Green, Hetty Green - Birth and early years, Hetty Green - Marriage, Hetty Green - Miser, Hetty Green - Death

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Developed in conjuction with the Salamis-Class Cruiser as part of the Earth Federation's "'70s Armament Reinforcement Plan", the Magellan-Class Battleship was the most powerful warship the Federation had at the time. The first Magellans had no mega particle cannons but were later refitted before the One Year War with the Principality of Zeon. All Magellan-Classes featured seven twin turret mega particle cannons in all, along with 20 anti-aircraft machin ...

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Magellan-Class Battleship, Magellan-Class Battleship - The original Magellan-Class, Magellan-Class Battleship - Magellan Kai refit, Magellan-Class Battleship - Magellan-Class fate

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Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska to Earl Little and Louise Little (née Norton). His father, an outspoken Baptist lay preacher and supporter of Marcus Garvey, was believed to have been killed by the Black Legion, a white supremacist group in Lansing, Michigan in 1931. Malcolm and his siblings had been split up and sent to different foster homes when Louise Little was declared legally insane. In 1939, she was formally committed to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo, Michigan, and remained there until Malcolm and his brothers a ...

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Malcolm X, Malcolm X - Name, Malcolm X - Birth and early years, Malcolm X - Prison, Malcolm X - Nation of Islam, Malcolm X - Marriage, Malcolm X - Tensions, Malcolm X - Hajj, Malcolm X - A Changed Man, Malcolm X - Africa, Malcolm X - Assassination, Malcolm X - Funeral, Malcolm X - Biographies and speeches, Malcolm X - Media files, Malcolm X - Notes

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Malcolm was born in Omaha, Nebraska as Malcolm Little to Earl Little and Louise Little (née Norton). His father, an outspoken Baptist lay preacher and supporter of Marcus Garvey, was believed to have been killed by the Black Legion, a white supremacist group in Lansing, Michigan in 1931. Malcolm and his siblings had been split up and sent to different foster homes when Louise Little was declared legally insane. In 1939, she was formally committed to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo, Michigan, and remained there until Malcolm and his brothers a ...

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Malcolm X, Malcolm X - Name, Malcolm X - Birth and early years, Malcolm X - Prison, Malcolm X - Nation of Islam, Malcolm X - Marriage, Malcolm X - Hajj, Malcolm X - A Changed Man, Malcolm X - Africa, Malcolm X - Death and aftermath, Malcolm X - Funeral, Malcolm X - Biographies and speeches, Malcolm X - Notes

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Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, to Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810-1871). Thomas was their seventh child. Edison had a late start in his schooling due to childhood illness. His mind often wandered and his teacher Reverend Engle was overheard calling him "addled". This ended Edison's three months of formal schooling. His mother had been a school teacher in Canada and happily took over the job of schooling her son. She encouraged and taught him to read and experiment. He recalled later, "My ...

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Thomas Edison, Thomas Edison - Family background, Thomas Edison - Birth and early years, Thomas Edison - Marriages and later life, Thomas Edison - Inventor, Thomas Edison - Menlo Park, Thomas Edison - Incandescent era, Thomas Edison - War of Currents era, Thomas Edison - Work relations, Thomas Edison - Media inventions, Thomas Edison - Homes, Thomas Edison - Trivia, Thomas Edison - List of contributions, Thomas Edison - Improvements of Edison's work, Thomas Edison - Tributes

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The Large Magellanic Cloud and its neighbour and relative, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are conspicuous objects in the southern hemisphere, looking like separated pieces of the Milky Way to the naked eye. Roughly 21° apart in the night sky, the true distance between them is roughly 75,000 light-years. Until the discovery of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy in 1994, they were the closest known galaxies to our own. Observation, and theoretical evidence suggests that the LMC and SMC have been greatly distorted by tidal inte ...

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Magellanic Clouds, Magellanic Clouds - History, Magellanic Clouds - Characteristics, Magellanic Clouds - External link

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Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, to Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810-1871). Thomas was their seventh child. Edison had a late start in his schooling due to childhood illness. His mind often wandered and his teacher Alexander Crawford was overheard calling him "addled". This ended Edison's three months of formal schooling. His mother had been a school teacher in Canada and happily took over the job of schooling her son. She encouraged and taught him to read and experiment. He recalled later, ...

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Thomas Edison, Thomas Edison - Family background, Thomas Edison - Birth and early years, Thomas Edison - First marriage, Thomas Edison - Inventor, Thomas Edison - Second marriage, Thomas Edison - Middle career, Thomas Edison - Menlo Park, Thomas Edison - Incandescent era, Thomas Edison - War of Currents era, Thomas Edison - Work relations, Thomas Edison - Media inventions, Thomas Edison - Homes, Thomas Edison - Trivia, Thomas Edison - List of contributions, Thomas Edison - Improvements of Edison's work, Thomas Edison - Tributes

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Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California to Francis Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon. He was raised by his mother as an evangelical Quaker. His upbringing is said to have been marked by such conservative evangelical Quaker observances as refraining from drinking, dancing and swearing. His father (known as Frank) was a former member of the Methodist Protestant Church who had sincerely converted to Quakerism but never fully ab ...

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Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon - Birth and early years, Richard Nixon - Nixon in Congress 1946-52, Richard Nixon - Vice Presidency, Richard Nixon - 1960 election and post-Vice Presidency, Richard Nixon - Presidency, Richard Nixon - Cabinet, Richard Nixon - Supreme Court appointments, Richard Nixon - Major initiatives, Richard Nixon - Watergate, Richard Nixon - Later years and death, Richard Nixon - Media, Richard Nixon - Quotations, Richard Nixon - Foreign policy, Richard Nixon - On Watergate, Richard Nixon - On peace, Richard Nixon - Miscellaneous, Richard Nixon - Nixon's image and media portrayals, Richard Nixon - Nixon in popular culture, Richard Nixon - Trivia

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Sanatana, or Amara as he was named at birth, was born in Jessore in East Bengal (present day Bangladesh) in 1488 as the son of Mukunda, the private secretary of the Sultan of Bengal, Jalaluddin Fateh Shah (ruled 1481-1487 CE). Sanatana was the eldest son of Mukunda and his younger brothers were Santosha (Rupa Goswami) and Srivallabha (Anupama). Sanatana and his brothers studied Nyaya (rhetortic) and Vedanta from the famous logician Vasudeva Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya. They also studied under the brother of Sarvabhauma, Madhusuda ...

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Sanatana Goswami, Sanatana Goswami - Sanatana’s Birth and Early Years, Sanatana Goswami - First meeting With Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Sanatana Goswami - Sanatana Meets Chaitanya in Benares, Sanatana Goswami - Sanatana in Vrindavana, Sanatana Goswami - Sanatana Goswami’s Literary Works, Sanatana Goswami - Bibliography

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Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, 25 miles (40 km) east of Cincinnati on the Ohio River, to Jesse Root Grant (1794–1873) and Hannah Simpson (1798–1883). His father, a tanner, and his mother were born in Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1823 they moved to the village of Georgetown in Brown County, Ohio, where Grant spent most of his time until he was 17. At the age of 17, and having barely passed West Point's height requirement for entrance, Grant received a cadetship to the United Stat ...

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Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant - Birth and early years, Ulysses S. Grant - Military career, Ulysses S. Grant - Mexican War, Ulysses S. Grant - Between the Wars, Ulysses S. Grant - Western Theater of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant - General-in-chief and strategy for victory, Ulysses S. Grant - Overland Campaign Petersburg and Appomattox, Ulysses S. Grant - Presidency, Ulysses S. Grant - Cabinet, Ulysses S. Grant - Supreme Court appointments, Ulysses S. Grant - States admitted to the Union, Ulysses S. Grant - Later life, Ulysses S. Grant - Timeline, Ulysses S. Grant - Legacy, Ulysses S. Grant - Anti-Semitism, Ulysses S. Grant - In memoriam, Ulysses S. Grant - Trivia, Ulysses S. Grant - Notes

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