To Americans and the French, a billion means a thousand millions (1,000,000,000, or 10 to the ninth, what some British call a milliard, a term that seems never to have been widely accepted).
According to Anglo history, Sir Francis Drake died of dysentery on January 27, 1596, aged 55 while anchored off the coast of Puerto Bello, Panama after an unsuccessful campaig â¦ n against the Spanish. He was buried at sea in a lead coffin, near Puerto Bello.
Betsy Drake, Actress and Third Wife of Cary Grant, Dies at 92. She met him aboard the Queen Mary, starred opposite the legendary actor in two comedies and introduced him to LSD. Betsy Drake, the vivacious actress who starred opposite her husband Cary Grant in the comedies Every Girl Should Be Married and Room for One More, has died. She was 92. Drake, who was the third of Grantâs five wives, died Oct. 27 in her London home, her friend, Michael Schreiber, said.