Word: transatlanticism
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Before I left the Panafest activities, I visited the Cape Coast Castle, a major British fort in the transatlantic slave trade. I immediately felt shaken, sensing the ghosts of death around me in the dungeon. Even thinking about the pain of the thousands of slaves that died where I was...
The contract also made them flush, and that of course has further quickened the collective conscience. Bono has been flabbergasted to read that he and his wife Alison, another Mount Temple grad, live in a seaside castle near Dublin. "It's a little round tower," he laughs. "Three levels, three...
Transatlantic slave imports, 1450-1870 -- Number of slaves
Today's heady success is only the beginning, according to Burr. Says he: "In five years, People Express will be a worldwide transportation company, carrying people and freight, and packaging hotels and rent-a-cars, the works." Some skeptics, though, think that People could instead end up like Laker Airways...
When London Trader Stephen Raven checked a stock listing on his computer screen last week, then bought 1,000 shares of Electrolux from a New York dealer, he was not just making an investment. He was making history. As chairman of the International Markets Committee of the London Stock Exchange...