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The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean, by Peter Earle Book Cover

The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean

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 …
Cover of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina.

The End of the World as They Knew It

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 …

Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… 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 …
Logo for "Canada 150".

Canada 150: Coming Home

… country. One hundred and forty reserves have contaminated water flowing from their taps; school buildings on reserves …
Hurricane Elena photographed from Space Shuttle Discovery, September 1, 1985

Rough Weather Ahead

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)
Valerie Plame in 2008.

A Dirty–and Deadly–Trick

… broke into Democratic national headquarters, in the Watergate Hotel, thus giving us an enduring political term. …
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]

Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety

… 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 …
Three 10th Mountain Division Ski troopers above Camp Hale in the Pando Valley, Colorado in February, 1944.

Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership

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 …