Ibn Battuta, was born in Tangier, Morocco, on February 24, 1304. From a statement in his celebrated travel book the Rihla (“legal affairs are my ancestral profession”) he evidently came from an ...

The 4,182-passenger Ovation of the Seas is the first Royal Caribbean Quantum Class ship based in Los Angeles — and also the largest ship ever to sail out of that port based on capacity. (At 168,666 ...