Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Lapulapu [2] [3] [4] (fl. 1521) or Lapu-Lapu, whose name was first recorded as Çilapulapu, [5] was a datu (chief) of Mactan, an island now part of the Philippines.Lapulapu is known for the 1521 Battle of Mactan, where he and his men defeated Spanish forces led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his native allies Rajah Humabon and Datu Zula.
According to Pigafetta, several of Magellan's men were killed in battle, and a number of native converts to Catholicism who had come to their aid were immediately killed by the warriors. [3] [7] Magellan's allies, Humabon and Zula, were said [10] to not have participated in the battle, at Magellan's bidding. They watched from a distance.
Huntsville Unit, the location of the State of Texas execution chamber. The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 15 February 2025. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people ...
Enrique is only documented to have traveled with Magellan from Malacca to Cebu in two segments—from Malacca to Portugal in 1511 and from Spain to Cebu in 1519–1521. The distance between Cebu and Malacca is 2500 km (approximately 20 degrees of longitude), which is left to complete the circumnavigation.
The Border Patrol had 28,717 people in custody on May 10, the day before pandemic-related asylum restrictions expired, which was double from two weeks earlier, according to a court filing. By ...
In 1967, a branch of Texas State Technical College was established in Harlingen. The two-year technical state college currently offers more than 30 programs to over 5,000 students. [33] In 2002, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio opened the Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC) Medical Education Division in Harlingen.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The news comes as the greatest number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty last year were in Texas. Eighteen were killed in Texas out of 147 federal, state, county, municipal ...