Cape of Good Hope

celebrated our 25th Anniversary with old and new friends along with Point Tupper residents that truly pioneered this association in the preservation of the community of Point Tupper. Our Association thanks you for your support for the last 25 years and I hope to garner more support in the next 25 years to come. This summer was a very busy summer for us this year with the 25th Anniversary of the Point Tupper Heritage Association long weekend events, our annual Causeway Tea and Closing Social.…

PREFACE “History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.” Phyliis McKinley In these pages we strive to broaden man’s ceaseless search for truth and his tireless efforts to tear away at the facades of conventional belief. We aspire to bring enlightenment and culture to the unwashed masses who live in this paradise we call Southwest Florida. We walk the reader through eons of events that have reportedly occurred here. Our past is replete with many…

Emerson on the premise of civil disobedience. He argues that citizens are obliged to engage in civil disobedience if a law is unjust, and good democratic citizens should seek out the freedom that was naturally endowed to them by the laws of nature. In contrast of Emerson’s view, Douglass argues that regardless if a law personally implicates an individual, a good democratic citizen must engage in civil disobedience if a law is unjust. In his speech, Douglass cites the commitment of the founding…

Midwest Division rivals. #2016NHLDraft prospect Matt Tkachuk hits #Coyotes prospect Christian Dvorak with a spinning pass. https://t.co/21MZiqdWpP— Brendan Ross (@RossyYoungblood) November 20, 2015 how many NHL lines are not as good as Dvorak-Marner-Tkachuk? I'd say a lot— EarlyChristmas Jared (@JaredOfLondon) November 21,…

Why explore the profound secrets of the earth when everyone believes circumnavigating it is illogical? During the Age of Exploration, people began doing what seemed impossible: expanding into the rest of the world between the 1400s and 1800s. Expeditions across the world were very long and expensive, not to mention very dangerous. Europeans risked perilous ocean voyages to discover new sea routes in order to expand and establish powerful trading empires. Many sailors died on the way and some…

The class lectures and discussions in Cultural Anthropology have enhanced my observation of the past, present and future of the many nations of our tiny planet. The semester has left my little grey cells intoxicated with a deeper understanding of how the dynamics of culture continues to change the world. Here is my brief Etic view of the globalization of the African continent. The Afri people have endured many changes throughout its seven million year history. Over the course of time,…

Prospect Faceoff: Matthews stays hot in Zurich, Svechnikov/Garland dual, plus two top-20 teams clash in college hockey Auston Matthews is taking an unconventional path to the NHL, and has earned a few accolades already while playing in Switzerland. Two electric playmakers go head-to-head in a battle of assist machines in the QMJHL, and a pair of potential Canadian teammates will likely see a lot of each other in a weekend contest. The Tampa Bay Lightning’s newest signee lines up against a…

Chinese miners sailed across the Pacific Ocean, spending up to two months making the trip in small boats. The three main routes used by American gold seekers were the Oregon-California Trail, the Cape Horn route, and the Panama…

voyages to India, and was appointed as Portuguese in India in 1524. To embark on the journey, Da Gama pointed his ships south, taking advantage of prevailing winds along the coast of Africa. Following several months of sailing, he rounded the Cape of Good Hope and began making his way up the eastern coast of Africa, toward the uncharted waters of the Indian Ocean By January, as the fleet neared what is now Mozambique, many of da Gama's crewmembers were sick with scurvy,…

Since childhood most people have watched their favorite pirate movie and fantasized about being on a ship that was commanded by a captain with a wooden leg or they have dreamed of being on a Caribbean island looking for buried treasure. Most of what’s been told to the masses about the life of people who have sailed the high seas is not fully accurate. The reality is the life of a so - called pirate and sailor was extremely harsh and very dangerous. Scurvy killed more sailors than all battles,…