What Kubrick's movies do have in common is not a theme so much as a method. He is a hunter in the atavistic jungle of human nature, an explorer set on discovering what happens to men and women when pushed to extremes in differing stressful environments.THE...
The race started on October 19, 2023, in A Coruña, Spain. The ambitious four-month adventure had Cole sailing across three oceans, famously known as the three “Great Capes.” She navigated her sailboat south around Africa and Australia, then crossed the Pacific Ocean to South America ...
China’s most renowned explorer sets sail again! Saria, Oliver Inay Dalisay’s World Famous Lechon (Bindlestuff Studio, 2022) Set in the Labis family’s extravagant backyard kitchen (a.k.a. “dirty kitchen”) over a series of get-togethers, the characters hilariously navigate their complica...
Spanish explorer Alvar Cabeza de Vaca found two tribes, the Han and the Coague, living there, each with its own language. They subsisted on a root taken from the shoal water, on fish, and visited the mainland for berries and oysters. The houses of the Coaque were made of mats and ...
((David J. Meltzer, First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 170.)) Other ancestors crossed the seas and voyaged along the Pacific coast, traveling along riverways and settling where local ecosystems permitted. ((Knut R. ...
But October's page on the calendar also has a lesser known observance. October ninth is Leif Erickson Day. Leif Erickson was a Norse explorer who sailed around the northeastern coast of what we now call North America about 1,000 years ago. He and his crew returned to Greenland with news...
John Smithwrote histories of Virginia based on his experiences as an English explorer and as president of the Jamestown Colony. These histories, published in 1608 and 1624, include his controversial accounts of the Powhatan girlPocahontas.
Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West, Francis Parkman Prize Edition (New York: History Book Club, 2006); see John Opie, Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers...
the first full cargo of human freight, the prince gave away the fifty-six which fell to his share as one-fifth, although it is recorded with the somewhat grotesque piety of the fifteenth century that “he reflected with great pleasure on the salvation of their souls that before were lost....
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