English example sentences with "Magellan"

The only reason why Ferdinand Magellan could claim to be the first man to sail across all of the world's meridians was because Christopher Columbus had chosen to swim.
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Columbus, Ericson, and Magellan once walked into a bar. Only Columbus walked out.
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What did Ferdinand Magellan do?
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Have you ever gone through the Straits of Magellan?
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Before its demise in October 1994, Magellan was able to collect radar images of 98% of Venus' surface.
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We were taught that Ferdinand Magellan was Portuguese but worked in the service of Spain.
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Explorer Ferdinand Magellan named the Pacific Ocean in the 16th Century.
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In 1519, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, in the employ of Spain, began a journey across the Atlantic Ocean to seek a western route to the Spice Islands via South America.
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After braving perilous seas and navigating through what are now known as the Straits of Magellan, Magellan's small fleet entered an unfamiliar ocean in Nov. 1520. He called this body of water pacific, due to the calmness of the water at the time ('pacific' means peaceful).
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When Magellan and his crew entered the Pacific Ocean after their long journey, they thought that the Spice Islands were close at hand. Little did they know that their destination remained thousands of miles away. The explorers had ventured into the largest ocean on Earth.
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That leads to the committee’s second recommendation, this one for the National Science Foundation: complete work on the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile, and start to build the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii.
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