Review of The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean, by Peter Earle (St. Martin's Press '07, $25.95, 292 pages, ISBN #0-312-36142-4; index, source notes, bibliography, unillustrated)
… government ordered the two most powerful ships to home waters during the summer of 1668. Vice-Admiral Don Alonzo de …
Review of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire, by Giusto Traina (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xix, 203. Trans. by Allan Cameron)
… floating towers, moored barges and, famously, dirty water. But it also had splendid churches, with some of the …
… in the Soho neighborhood of London that a single (infected) water pump was the epicenter of a ring of infections of … ceased. From this Snow correctly inferred that cholera was waterborne disease, not one carried in the air, although the …
Review of Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina, by Stuart B. Schwartz (Princeton University Press, 2015)
… 6 is where most of the fuselage was destroyed when it hit water tanks. Shortly after the Lear landed, an air traffic … it onto airport property where it collided with two water tanks. By the time the aircraft came to rest, it was …
What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?
… after their arrival, certain companies still only had one water heater instead of three, twenty water cans instead of eighty, and as little as one-fourth …