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The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

In Japan, bobtail cats are considered good luck and Nagasaki is the place to find them. They are known as “omagari neko (bent-tail cats)” or “kagi neko (hook cats)” and have their own ...

The Koning Willem de Tweede had initially been charted for trade between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). But on its return journey, it diverted to Hong Kong to pick up ...

Today when the United States military needs to transport an aircraft to an overseas location, pilots can fly a direct route ... met such a fate in the Dutch East Indies — it was ferrying ...

Ships belonging to the Dutch East Indies Company sailing to and from the ... The British moved in to protect the trade route to India, the territory which they were looting systematically if ...

SINGAPORE -- In January 2019, the global surge in anti-racist sentiment sparked by the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement washed up on the shores of Britain's former colonies in Southeast Asia.

Many regard the Dutch settlers as pioneers in establishing trade routes and as the forefathers of Afrikaner ... Mozambique, and Asia (Dutch East Indies and Dutch Ceylon) to work the land. Young ...

For centuries, this was a major route for the movement of people ... and rose to the position of governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. From 1694 to 1696, Zwaardecroon noted, as many as ...