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The Straits of Magellan are at the tip of South America around Tierra del Fuego.

Other two The Moon?

Ferdinand Magellan

Explorer back in 15th century or so, first to circumnavigate the world.

Rubecula wrote: »

not quite ted first to captain the ship that first circumnavigate the globe, he died on the voyage.

Right. He got clubbed in the East Indies, but for some reason he persistently gets credited with being the first global circumnavigator. I believe a fellow from Bristol called Fisher was on that first voyage.

It's the old language of South Wexford (Baronies of Forth and Bargy) which died out around the time of the Great Famine, based mainly on Middle English with a sprinkling of Irish, French and Flemish as befitted people of Norman origin. The two principal literary survivals are 1. a poem about a hurling game in which the protagonist fluffed an open shot at goal and 2. an address to the visiting Lord Lieutenant in 1834.
I have somewhere a booklet on it which was available a few decades ago, maybe still is.
Incidentally, while everybody now calls it Yola I suspect that its speakers never did and that the word is based on a false etymology: In the aforesaid address to the Lord Lieutenant it is referred to as "our yola (=old) talke."

P.S. And now maybe somebody might guess an African country in response to my outstanding question before the president who is the subjest of the question passes away and renders the question obsolete. He's in his nineties,

Rubecula wrote: »

Namibia

Nope. Furtherh north.

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Just on the Corsair connection, I'd guess Tunisia.

Correct as usual, Autumn Harsh Cloud.
Beji Caid Essebsi, a great-grandson of Ismail Caïd Essebsi, a Sardinian kidnapped by Tunisian corsairs along the coasts of Sardinia sometime between 1805 and 1816. He was one of the last Europeans taken by force to North Africa as US intervention suppressed the Barbary slave trade very soon afterwards. He became a mamluk leader raised with the ruling family after converting to Islam. His father, a Sardinian merchant, located him and went to Tunis with a view to bringing him home, but he refused to return. He was later recognized as a free man when he became an important member of the government.
The current president has the appearance of a Dublin chipshop owner from Casalattico at a family wedding..

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Who was the first president of the United States born an American citizen?

Damn! Martin van Buren?

By what Christian/first name was Queen Victoria known before she became queen?

Rubecula wrote: »

Alexandrina?

Correct.

My granny was called Maud...and she was a bit of an empress - at least she had an imperial way with her