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Who Were the Real Pirates of the Caribbean?
Smithsonian Magazine· 22 hours agoThe narrow lane of Paternoster Row, today lined with trendy cafés and sushi shops, feels like an unlikely spot for the birth of the pirates of the...
Book excerpt: "What This Comedian Said Will Shock You" by Bill Maher
CBS News· 5 days agoIn his new book, "What This Comedian Said Will Shock You" (to be published May 21 by Simon & Schuster), Bill Maher, the opinionated host of HBO's "Real Time," rails hilariously against what ...
Stevie Wonder Granted Ghanaian Citizenship, Embracing His Heritage
MSN News· 1 day agoStevie Wonder is officially making good on a promise to make the West African country his permanent...
Harry and Meghan are visiting Nigeria – here’s why it should be on your holiday wishlist
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 days agoFar from being a country counter, I do have a casual, meandering ambition one day to visit all 54...
Claire Messud on Virginia Woolf, 'The Little Prince,' and The Book That Kept Her Up Too Late
Elle via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe upheaval and migration that we think of as contemporary have existed for a millennium or more....
What lurks beneath: Treasures, wrecks and curios
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSurprisingly Mr Goodban's is not the only elephant tusk to have been found. Another was found off Falmouth in 2019, 110m (361ft) underwater on a Royal...
Opinion | The History That New York City Takes for Granted
New York Times· 4 days agoDr. Jackson is a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University, president emeritus of the New-York Historical Society and the editor in chief of both editions of The Encyclopedia of New ...
The bustling African city four hours from London hoping to break records
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 days agoShams restaurant can be found on the roof of the museum. Its reasonably priced menu offers a mix of...
Doing Right Is Hard When Doing Wrong Is Profitable
Bloomberg· 5 days agoThe 17th-century Dutch were quite aware that slavery was pernicious and dove in anyway. Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business,...
Race Hustlers Are Destroying America
The American Conservative· 6 days agoThe latter decades of the Ottoman empire are occasionally held up as a golden age of pluralism and tolerance; in some respects, they were, particularly...
