Sexual Identity - the degree of awareness and recognition of sex and sex roles. Gender - behaviors or patterns of activities that a society or culture deems appropriate for men and women. Definitions (cont.) Gender Role - the degree to which a person adopts the gender-specific behaviors ascribed by his or her culture. Gender Identity - the degree to which a person has awareness or recognition that he or she adopts a particular gender role.
This is a beta version of NNDB. King Ferdinand II. Ferdinand V of Castile and Leon, also called Ferdinand II of Aragon, was the son of John I of Aragon by his second marriage with Joanna Henriquez, of the family of the hereditary grand admirals of Castile, and was born at Sos in Aragon on the 10th or 16th of March 1452.
Ferdinand Magellan (1480 - 1521) Ferdinand Magellan Â© This Portuguese-born navigator was one of the great explorers of his era - the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean, he also played a crucial role in the first circumnavigation of the world. Ferdinand Magellan was born in 1480 into a noble Portuguese family. His parents died when he was still a boy and he became a court page in Lisbon. In 1505, he enlisted in the fleet of the Portuguese viceroy to the Indies, and spent the following years involved in a series of Portuguese expeditions in India and Africa.