Posts in category Theory
How Many Americans Have A Passport?
How many Americans have a passport? This was the question a British friend asked me one day, probably based upon an assumption that much of the world has about Americans, which is that the majority of U.S. citizens do not have passports, and therefore cannot travel outside its borders. I had no idea what the […]
Read MoreMaria de Fonseca
Maria de Fonseca, daughter of a Portuguese-Angolan trader, said to be the favorite wife of Msiri, King of Katanga, in 1892. Maria de Fonseca was the favourite wife of Msiri, the powerful warrior-king of Katanga, at the time when the Stairs Expedition arrived in 1891 to take possession of the territory for the Belgian King Leopold II, with or without Msiri’s consent.[1] Msiri typically cemented […]
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