3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (186+ words) Gustaf Erikson of Finland owned the last great fleet of sailing ships the world would ever see. We have rare first hand accounts from men who sailed from Europe to Australia to load grain and return to Europe by way…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (288+ words) Nowhere else (except maybe North Korea) will you find a town so eager to honour communist icons as Bloemfontein. The provincial government building is named after Fidel Castro. There’s a statue of him too. There are streets honouring Karl Marx…...

9+ mon, 5+ day ago   (473+ words) JOHANNESBURG, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Ideas of white racial superiority are a threat to South Africa's post-apartheid unity, its sovereignty and its diplomatic relations, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday, calling for global efforts to debunk false stories about white persecution. Ramaphosa…...

7+ mon, 5+ day ago   (345+ words) MOVING BEYOND CAPE BOJADOR The early Portuguese explorers believed that the oceans were impassable below Cape Bojador, a point on the West African coast. When sailors set aside their fears and moved past Cape Bojador, they found that their fears…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (699+ words) Violet Zulu sits in a two-room home in Lusaka with no running water, trying to rebuild her life at twenty-six. She earns about forty dollars a month cleaning houses. She begs for food at times so her two little boys…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (418+ words) Socialists claim they haven’t experienced American prosperity. All you have to do is look around. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) wants to confiscate, er, “tax” 50% of the stock of artificial-intelligence companies—the dumbest idea since Karl Marx picked up a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (314+ words) Something big is about to happen with deportations in America. You should be ready for this… I just spoke with a senior DHS official. They shared deportation numbers with me that frankly stunned me. +27,000 deportations. Last week. +3,600 a day average....