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EGYPT Revolutionary groups like Islamic Jihad and al-Gama al-Islamiyya play a major role in al-Queda...
...dragged the bodies up a steep mountain face through jungle to a narrow, deep cave. They hid the bodies and covered the entrance with rocks, never to be touched until 1998 when local police found the cave and the remains within. "We have always called it Kurombo Gama," says Yasumura. Negro Cave. The three soldiers were black...
...aquarium that opened in Lisbon last week looks like a futuristic ship preparing for exploration. That's as it should be: The aquarium, the largest in Europe, is the centerpiece of Expo '98, a world's fair dedicated to "The Oceans" and timed to celebrate Vasco da Gama's historic voyage from Lisbon to India--via the Cape of Good Hope--500 years ago. But Lisbon's newest tourist attraction is also a symbol of a growing public interest in underwater zoos, especially those created by Peter Chermayeff of the Massachusetts-based architecture firm Cambridge Seven, the Columbus...
Lewis and Clark--the names rise dimly from an elementary school textbook along with an illustration of two white men in a canoe. Explorers. The Northwest Passage. Something to do with Vasco da Gama...
...Moor's Last Sigh is a stunning novel. It is the story of four generations of a Portuguese family in India, as told by its last surviving progeny. The Da Gama-Zogoibys are rendered in full Rushdie relief. The Da Gamas are Catholic, the Zogoibys Jewish. Their combustible union is further complicated by issues of waning colonialism; family politics are intricately woven in with global politics to form a dizzying portrait of people handcuffed to time and place...