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, an actress who was Cary Grant's third wife and survived the sinking of the ocean liner Andrea Doria, has died at 92. Pictured left, Drake circa 1947 and right, in the 1950s. Drake (pictured in 1956) died in London on October 27, her cousin Perry Howze confirmed on Thursday.