MEXICO CITY — Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnavigation expedition led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. Five centuries later, a pandemic looms as a ...

NEW BEDFORD — All aboard! For the second year in a row, the Nao Trinidad is headed back to Pope’s Island Marina. The 16th-century tall ship is a replica of the one that circumnavigated the globe with ...

Four weary “air Magellans,” burnt by the wind, lined by the sun, reached Seattle, their round-the-earth goal. There they endured their final ovation, with sirens shrieking, crowds cheering, orators ...

Cruising down a local street last week, I notice that the only other car on the road is about 300 yards ahead. “Be careful,” a woman’s voice announces from my windshield. “You’re too close to the car ...

From McCook Field, Dayton, four weary air Magellans took off (in two planes), flew to Chicago under perfect conditions in the easiest hop of their trip around the earth (TIME, Mar. 24 et seq.). In a ...