Tag: Barbados
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The Cumberbatch story
Avi OhryTel Aviv, Israel Benedict Cumberbatch is a well-known English actor whose name appears often in the media as Dr. Stephen Strange (an arrogant and self-centered neurosurgeon) or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes with Dr. Watson. Recently, we heard that the Barbados National Task Force on Reparations was seeking reparations from wealthy British persons for their…
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Death, disease, and discrimination during the construction of the Panama Canal (1904–1914)
Enrique Chaves-CarballoOverland Park, Kansas, United States Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1858–1919) President Theodore Roosevelt envisioned an interoceanic canal as indispensable for American “dominance at the seas.”1 An isthmian canal would facilitate rapid deployment of U.S. Navy ships from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans, bypassing the arduous 2,000-mile trip around the tip of South America. However, construction of…