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Between 1519 and 1522 another Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, led the first expedition to circumnavigate the world.
Magellan's benefactors, though, never bankrolled a technical advance quite like the Allen Brain Atlas.
João Gonçalves Zarco, sailing in the service of Prince Henry, made the first of many famous Portuguese discoveries, which would culminate a century later in Magellan’s historic circumnavigation of the globe.
A WP Sunday Outlook piece, written by Fidelity Magellan Fund legend Peter Lynch, argues that through nine recessions, a presidential assassination, multiple wars, and numerous political scandals the stock market has increased in value.
While Plotz is right that the number of challenges remaining seems to be decreasing--it could hardly increase--I find it almost impossible to believe that previous record-setters were driven by the kind of practical, commercial concerns that Plotz ascribes to Ferdinand Magellan and Dick Rutan.