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unusual facts about Magellan



Captain Z-Ro

Over the years, plots involved Z-Ro and Jet rescuing a wide range of historical figures, including Genghis Khan, Marco Polo, Magellan, William the Conqueror, and Daniel Boone.

Charles Jacquinot

The mission of the expedition was to survey the Straights of Magellan, then head to the Weddell Sea.

Columbia City, Seattle

Three streets in the neighborhood bear names of other famous explorers, a Columbia Street already existing Downtown: Ferdinand Street after Magellan, Hudson Street after Henry Hudson, and Americus Street after Amerigo Vespucci.

Cruizer-class sloop

She was used to survey the Strait of Magellan, as well as Canadian and Australian waters, and on 20 February 1884 was loaned to the US Navy to assist in the rescue of the expedition under Adolphus Greely.

Dizzy Digs Paris

Recorded on February 9, 1953 at the Salle Pleyel (Disc One and Disc Two, track 1) and on February 22, 1953 at the Studio Pathe Magellan (Disc Two, tracks 2-17) and February 27, 1953 (Disc Two, tracks 18-25), in Paris, France

Dmitry Gerasimov

It is widely held that Gerasimov was the Russian translator of the Maximilianus Transylvanus' Letter on Magellan voyage.

Emma Helen Blair

Volumes 15 and 16 consist of Antonio de Morga's History of the Philippine Islands From Their Discovery by Magellan in 1521 to the Beginning of the XVII Century, an extremely valuable source on the early history of the islands.

Enrique of Malacca

Italian historian Antonio Pigafetta, who wrote the most comprehensive account of Magellan's voyage, named him "Henrique" (which was Hispanicized Enrique in official Spanish documents).

Frame-dragging

However, the inclusion of the radiometric data from the Magellan orbiter recently allowed Pitjeva to greatly improve the determination of the unmodelled precession of the perihelion of Venus.

George Diller

Diller lists among his favorite moments, the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope aboard STS-31, Magellan and Galileo probes which he had much involvement in, and his first shuttle launch commentary for the STS-27 mission.

Hakluyt Society

At another meeting, held in August that year, Council voted that the vignette of Magellan's ship, the Victoria, should be imprinted on the cover of all volumes.

HD 86226

Due to the reactions it had when placed under a Doppler test, 13 Magellan Doppler Velocity observations were made of an object found near the star.

Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley

Henry Edward John Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley and 2nd Baron Eddisbury (11 July 1827 – 11 December 1903), was a historian who translated The first voyage round the world by Magellan and other works from the Age of Discovery.

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

Largely with the appearance of the eyewitness account of Ginés de Mafra, the only seaman in Magellan's fleet to return to Mazaua, whose testimony reveals a concrete, measurable description of Mazaua, the skein starting from the garbled version of Pigafetta by Ramusio to the mishandling by Combés to Bellin and finally to Amoretti has been unraveled: Pigafetta's Gatighan is Bellin's Limasava.

Jave la Grande

Java Minor was identified as an island (the present Island of Java) by the Franco-Portuguese navigator and cosmographer Jean Alfonse in his work of 1544, La Cosmographie but Java Major according to him was part of the continent of Terra Australis, which extended as far as the Antarctic Pole and the Strait of Magellan.

Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies

Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, now called Magellan Strategies, is a survey research firm with offices in Louisville, Colorado and Geismar, Louisiana.

Magellan Navigation

Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with European sales and engineering centers in Nantes, France and Moscow, Russia, Magellan also produces aftermarket automotive GPS units, including the Hertz Neverlost system found in Hertz rental cars.

Magellan Project Science Team

The Magellan Project Science Team consisted of Dr. R. Stephen Saunders, the Project Scientist; Dr. Ellen Stofan, the Deputy Project Scientist; research assistants Tim Parker, Dr. Jeff Plaut, and Anet DiCharon; and Project Science Aide, Gregory Michaels.

Mini-RF

Previous SAR instruments, such as the radar on the Magellan mission to Venus, were large, massive, power-hungry, and expensive.

Noel MacNeal

He has also been Magellan, a baby dragon, on the ACE Award winning series Eureeka's Castle on Nick Jr, Leon MacNeal in The Puzzle Place; Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III and Madame Chairbird in the film Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird.

Rodney Gordon

He was born on 2 February 1933 in Wanstead, east London to a Polish-Russian father and a Chilean mother, who was from the naval port of Punta Arenas, Tierra Del Fuego, the southernmost city on Earth, overlooking the Straits of Magellan.

Ronald J. Grabe

Magellan arrived at Venus in mid-1990, and mapped over 95% of the surface of Venus.

Santa Inés Island

This latter is located in front of the island on the another side of the Strait of Magellan and is a peninsula of Riesco Island.

Sonsorol

The first sighting by Europeans of Sonsorol islands was by the Spanish ship Trinidad then commanded by Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa, after the death of Magellan.

Venezuelan Professional Baseball League

On December 27, 1945, the owners of the Caracas Brewery (Cervecería Caracas, present day Caracas Lions or Leones del Caracas), Vargas Wisemen (Sabios de Vargas), the Magellan Navigators (Navegantes del Magallanes), and Venezuela BBC created the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.


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