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In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus had a reputation as being something of a clever trickster and he famously gave the human race the gift of fire and the skill of metalwork, an action for which he was punished by Zeus. https://t.co/kzDVtdZmIO

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Today in The Strait of Magellan, the passage south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific & the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered & navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage. (1520 CE)

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Today in The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time. (1512 CE)

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Today in Constantine I (Constantine the Great) is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. (312 CE)

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Today in Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as the Strait of Magellan. (1520 CE)

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An Extraordinary 500-Year-Old Shipwreck Is Rewriting the History of the Age of Discovery. https://t.co/I1tr6Roctp

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Renaissance Humanism was an intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world and studies which focused not on religion but on what it is to be human. https://t.co/4dTbyrmWps

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A peltast was a type of Greek infantryman who was usually armed with a javelin and who carried a light shield. https://t.co/PGNCxvEkKB

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