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The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is often credited as being the first person to have circumnavigated the globe, but the reality of his journey is a bit more complicated. Magellan first set sail in September 1519 as part of an epic attempt to find a western route to the spice-rich East Indies in modern-day Indonesia. While he successfully led his crew across the Atlantic, through a strait in southern South America and over the vast expanse of the Pacific, he was killed only halfway through the circuit in a skirmish with natives on the Philippine island of Mactan. Magellan’s death meant that he personally failed to circle the world, but his expedition continued on without him. In September 1522, one of his ships arrived safely back in Spain having completed a successful circumnavigation of the globe. Of the mission’s 260 original crewmen, only 18 had survived the perilous three-year journey.

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If Magellan wasn’t the first person to circle the globe, then who was? The most obvious candidate is Juan Sebastian Elcano, a Basque mariner who took control of the expedition after Magellan’s death in 1521 and captained its lone surviving vessel, the “Victoria,” on its journey back to Spain. Elcano and his sailors stand as the first people to have successfully voyaged around the world as part of a single journey, but they might not be the first humans to have circumnavigated the globe over the course of a lifetime. Opinions differ, but many historians give the honor to Magellan’s Malay slave, Enrique. Magellan had seized Enrique from Malacca during an earlier 1511 voyage to the East Indies, and the Malay later served as the round-the-world expedition’s interpreter in the Pacific islands. Enrique had previously traveled west with Magellan from Asia to Europe before joining in the voyage across the Atlantic and Pacific, so by the time the mission reached Southeast Asia, he had very nearly circled the globe and returned to his homeland—albeit over the course of several years and multiple voyages. Enrique abandoned the expedition and disappeared shortly after Magellan’s death in the Philippines. By then, he was only a few hundred miles short of his point of origin in Malacca. If he ever returned to his homeland, then Enrique may deserve the true credit for being the first person to circumnavigate globe. [links]

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Telling the true story of the Maiden, without having conflicts reduced to catfights or struggles glossed over, strikes Edwards as an opportunity to show young women what success really looks like. “What I find so sickening about what girls have to deal with today is how perfect they have to be to do anything. How you look, how you dress. And I wanted to show them that women’s success is not pretty. Sometimes it’s hard and difficult. And you can only say that afterwards. We could never have said that as we were going through it, we would have been annihilated.”

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Laughing, she added, “He allowed himself to be educated. Now that’s a great journalist.” here

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Tracy Edwards led the first all-female sailing team around the world. Now, the subject of the new doc ‘Maiden’ opens up about making history and silencing all the male haters.

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She continued, “They didn’t really have an ax to grind, so they were like, okay, you’re in the race—and still, a lot of journalists didn’t like it. I find it so weird still. The male journalists who loved the sport were very easily persuaded because they want what’s best for the sport. The male chauvinists who were entrenched in their doctrine, they would never change their minds—even if every other boat dropped out and we were the only boat that finished.” Shaking her head, Edwards offered that she’s not sure how much has changed in thirty years, saying, “I don’t think we’re anywhere near where we need to be.” here

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“It just became a battle of wills,” Edwards recalled, positing that if her efforts hadn’t faced such resounding, sexist backlash, she might not have seen the project through: “Yeah, that helped.” more

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While the bulk of the film focuses on the race, with all of its built-in drama and visual majesty, we start by getting to know Edwards. It takes a special kind of twentysomething to dedicate her entire life to a project that no one thinks she is capable of, and Edwards is certainly that. Rebellious, stubborn, and adventurous, the teenage Edwards took her school expulsion as an opportunity to travel around the world. By chance, she was offered a position working on a charter yacht. As she became increasingly involved in the sailing world, Edwards learned about the Whitbread Round the World Race, and liked the sound of it. She convinced an entrant to take her on as a cook during the 1985-1986 race. Of the 230 crew members taking part in the race, only four were women.

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Rare and distinctive discoveries are on offer, some of them having survived 500 years of colonialism intact, such as the King Bulol. From Paris, a couple of watercolor illustrations by Honorato Lozano, one of which portrays the Indios Tagalos in a fashion worthy of theater, serving in fact as a basis for the costume design in one Ballet Philippines obra, are among the pieces that speak volumes about our past. here

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It’s been 500 years since Magellan’s historic arrival to the Philippines, but have we come to realize we have given him undue credit by saying he discovered us? Did he recognize how rich we were when his explorations led him here in 1521? Yes, he did—and swiftly, claiming the islands for Spain. Too bad, though he had much to gain from what he would consider his discovery, including a cut of the profits, in the hands of a Filipino, from the poisoned arrow of Lapu Lapu, in a skirmish on Mactan, Magellan would die too soon, barely two months after his arrival, to enjoy any of his rewards. Preview ongoing.

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And that is why, I guess, when I took a tour of the lots as a preview to Salcedo Auctions’ first major Important Philippine Art & Furniture sale for 2021 under the theme “1521-2021: 500 Years of Cross-Cultural Encounters,” I was hopeful that at last we could look at our historic ties from a different perspective. There is no doubt that our encounters with the West, not only the Spaniards, the Dutch, the British, or the Americans or even the Japanese, but also the Chinese and the Arabs, with whom we had engaged in trade centuries before Magellan’s expedition claimed to have discovered us. Recounting what he read from Italian chronicler Antonio Pigafetta’s account of Magellan’s arrival in the Philippines, which he found in the original Italian in London in 1888, Rizal also said that, upon arrival on an island now known as Samar, Magellan was honored by the inhabitants and shown “their boats where they had their merchandise, which consisted of cloves, cinnamon, pepper, nutmegs, mace, gold, and other things; and they made us understand by gestures that such articles were to be found in the islands to which we were going.’” more

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The piece-de-resistance is an untitled work by Elmer Borlongan, which first belonged to cultural icon Gilda Cordero-Fernando, the largest ever Borlongan to go on auction and probably one of the largest works ever by the artist.

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Essential to this sale’s lineup are religious artifacts, such as a large 18th century ivory Santo Cristo Expirante, the dramatic Nuestra Señora del Rosario oil-on-wood painting, with Rococo urna frame made from Bohol molave, and a solid 19th century ivory Mother & Child.

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In 1928, a patriarchal wildcatter named F.C. Hall hired Post as his personal pilot and fellow adventurer. Hall wanted the best aircraft available, so he bought a Lockheed Vega 5C and named it Winnie Mae after his daughter. During a brief economic downturn, Hall sold the aircraft, but as soon as the oil business rebounded, he had Lockheed build another, financing the modifications Post prescribed, and also named it Winnie Mae. more

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Post was no schoolboy. Machines and their workings made him tick. Post saw his first airplane as a youth and was destined for the sky. To make ends meet, he rough-necked on Texas oil rigs. Post then barnstormed Oklahoma after World War I, saving every nickel. Piloting and parachuting paid well, but by early 1925, the money had run dry. more

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In 1932, Post acquired Winnie Mae, and in the summer of 1933, he was the first to fly solo around the world, 21 hours faster than his flight with Gatty in 1931! Post developed the first practical pressure suit and, by taking Winnie Mae to 50,000 feet, is credited with verifying the jet stream. In August 1935, Post and good friend Will Rogers were exploring Alaska when the aircraft Post had built from parts of other airplanes experienced an engine failure and crashed into a lake shortly after takeoff. Both were killed instantly.

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Four hours after taking off from Khabarovsk, Post and Gatty crossed Sakhalin Island. It was go/no go to Alaska. “Only” 13 hours to go. They pressed on in black rain, fog, and hail, flying between layers to find an opening (to get a fix) and eventually land on the beach at Cape Nome, Alaska, 129 miles southeast of the Bering Strait. The flight leg lasted 16 hours and 52 minutes. [links]