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Friday, June 6, 2014, marked the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the date of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe and the hinge upon which all of the rest of modern history swings.
German Field Marshal Erwin Marshal Erwin Rommel, overall commander...
DATE: Jun 09, 2014
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Scientific populariser and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, a longtime friend of Bermuda who regularly lectured on the nature of things at local astronomical events in the ‘70s and ‘80s, had a famously limited tolerance for all forms of quackery....
DATE: Jun 06, 2014
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David Wingate began to change the world, or at least a tiny speck of it at the easternmost end of Bermuda, when he was just a 15-year-old schoolboy.
Teased by his classmates because of both his prominent, beaklike nose and equally pronounced love of ...
DATE: Jun 04, 2014
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Mark Twain openly marvelled at the restorative powers of Bermuda, saying a visit to the Island did him more good than any dozen doctors.
Of course, this was Victorian Bermuda, a largely stress-free environment where there was “no rush, no hurry, no m...
DATE: Jun 02, 2014
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In recent years the America’s Cup has gone from exemplifying sailing as the ritzy Sport of Kings to becoming one of the kings of televised sporting events.
Traditional notions of yachts and yachtsmen — ketches so very elegant they seem to belong to t...
DATE: May 30, 2014
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Inspired in part by the 1609 Sea Venture wreck and related events which led to Bermuda’s permanent settlement, the William Shakespeare play The Tem- pest could arguably be described as the best-pedigreed real estate prospectus in history.
Aside from ...
DATE: May 28, 2014
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It was not only the honourable course of action, it was both the right and necessary thing to do.
Premier Craig Cannonier’s resignation from office over his clumsy handling of the Jetgate matter has at least temporarily sidelined a meteoric political...
DATE: May 22, 2014
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With Washington influence peddler Nathan Landow confirming he was indeed party to a $300,000 campaign contribution to the One Bermuda Alliance in the run-up to the Island’s 2012 General Election, the long-simmering Jetgate scandal has been brought to...
DATE: May 17, 2014
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It’s been said that when history repeats itself, what was first played out as tragedy is usually reenacted as farce.
Those Bermudians who follow the Island’s periodic debates on electoral reform can vouch for the authenticity of this observation.
The...
DATE: May 15, 2014
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It’s one of the drawbacks of life on a small Island, the occasional tendency to become distracted by the minor details of public life at the expense of seeing the broader picture. Bermudian politics exploits this failing on an all too regular basis. ...
DATE: May 13, 2014
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