The War of Jenkins’ Ear pitted Britain against Spain from 1739 to 1748, leaving three particularly noteworthy episodes in its ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

Magellan's Mistake - Ferdinand Magellan has made a very, very big mistake. Determined to circumnavigate the world, and cross the ocean Balboa had sighted in 1513, he’d just finished a perilous ...

Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of controlling an autonomous agent to localize and circumnavigate a stationary or slowly moving target in the presence of an unknown wind disturbance. First, ...

Ferdinand Magellan, the man who is famous for being the first to circumnavigate the Earth, actually never achieved the feat. His ships and some of his crew did, but Magellan himself was killed in the ...

The Nao Trinidad, a full-size replica of the first ship to circumnavigate the world, lost power Monday morning on its way to the St. Augustine Marina.

No damage to the bridge.” The Nao Trinidad is a full-size replica of the tall ship Magellan-Elcan, the first ship to circumnavigate the globe between 1519 and 1522, proving that the world was round.

The idea of hosting a Goodyear blimp originated in August, when the news that a huge German Graf Zeppelin had successfully circumnavigated the world in 21 days swept the nation. It was the first ...

As social platforms seek to increase audience engagement and time spent on-platform, they’re constantly refining their recommendation algorithm to deliver content that is ever more personalised ...