The Candlemakers' petition is a well known satire of protectionism written and published by Frederic Bastiat in 1845, in which candlemakers[?] and industrialists from other corporations petition the legislative body to make a law to protect their trade from the unfair competition of a foreign power: the sun.
... Dias, (1450-1500), Portuguese explorer who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
Sir Francis Drake, (c. 1540-1596), pirate, leader of the second ...