Marcos supporters abhor the “dictator” tag, but Oxford dictionary defines the term as “a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.”
21, 2023 episode, popular and long-running game show 'Jeopardy!' featured under the category 'Current World Leaders' a reference to Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as a 'president... has taken so many foreign trips... a play on his name is 'Ferdinand Magellan Jr.'' Obviously, the play on Magellan's name is a joke and together with 110 million Filipinos, I recognized it as such. However, I still want to write a 'no-chill' column about that reference.Marcos Jr.
Among the most prominent figure in Portuguese exploration in the 15th century were Prince Henry the Navigator , Bartolomeu Dias , Vasco da Gama , Pedro Alvares Cabral , Afonso de Albuquerque , among others.Exploration heated up after the Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus reached the Americas in 1492 under the Spanish flag and was followed by subsequent explorers and conquistadors.
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