Air Force veteran Juan Baret has loved baseball ever since he was a 9-year-old Bronx kid eagerly waiting at the gate of Yankee Stadium, hoping to get in. Years of chronic pain have left him una ...

Jeanne Baret didn't set out to be the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. When she stepped onboard the Etoile in 1766, she was looking for plants. Her lover, Philibert Commerson, was a well ...

“He ended up at the age of 17 going to Germany to study photography and cinematography,” said Baret Lepejian, Isgo Lepejian’s son. Isgo was born in Jerusalem in 1937 and by the time he was ...

More than two centuries after she disguised herself as a man and set out on a journey that would make her the first woman to circle the globe, pioneering botanist Jeanne Baret is getting some long ...

Jeanne Baret, botanist and first female circumnavigator, finally commemorated in name of new species. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 22, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 01 ...

Not only a glass-ceiling-shattering explorer, but also a groundbreaking botanist, Jeanne Baret sailed around the world as part of the first French circumnavigation of the globe, led by admiral ...