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.
Anne Frank died of typhus before Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British on 15 April 1945. The precise date of her death is not known, but it was probably during the first two weeks of March. Her body was heaped up with hundreds of others in a pile beside the barracks. She has no known grave. But her diary remained.