What We Know So Far » magellan http://www.whatweknowsofar.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:06:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Connection Made! http://www.whatweknowsofar.com/2009/02/connectionmade/ http://www.whatweknowsofar.com/2009/02/connectionmade/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:06:20 +0000 Mike http://www.whatweknowsofar.com/?p=105 After doing some research I found an interesting tidbit about Magellan’s travels around the globe. Turns out that when his 18-remaining crew members returned to Spain, they had experienced one fewer night than they had expected to. Their calendars were a day behind. This discovery lead directly to the need for an international date line.

Magellan and his men: the first official time travelers!

]]> http://www.whatweknowsofar.com/2009/02/connectionmade/feed/ 0 Magellan? http://www.whatweknowsofar.com/2009/02/magellan/ http://www.whatweknowsofar.com/2009/02/magellan/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:54:35 +0000 Mike http://www.whatweknowsofar.com/?p=10
Ferdinan Magellan!

Part of me thinks alot of Forward / Backwards might be modelled on Magellan’s failure to actually circumnavigate the globe. Did you know he died before his crew actually made it? Really almost none of his crew made it. Only four of his original crewmen returned, and along the journey almost 250 sailors from all around the world died of starvation, disease, in war and were even abandoned.

Brutal.

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