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.
St. Francis of Assisi died in 1226 of natural causes. It is said that, at the moment of his death, he placed himself on the bare ground and covered himself with a borrowed cloth, thus following his... Read More Â».