On Dec. 13, 1577, Francis Drake, with Queen Elizabeth’s blessing, left England on an expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Drake became the second man, after Ferdinand Magellan, to complete a circumnavigation of the globe. Drake is one of many of the world's great adventurers and explorers that students can learn about from our SweetSearch Biographies page for this category.
On December 13, 1936, Karim Aga Khan IV, leader of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, was born in Geneva, Switzerland.
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The Scholastic news widget includes an article that provides a view that Arsinoe II may have been a female pharaoh of Egypt two centuries before Cleopatra. This summer we published a biography of Arsinoe II.
Letters of Note features a handwritten letter from John Lennon that provides some insight into the breakup of The Beatles.
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