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King Leopold’s Ghost: Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

King Leopold’s Ghost: Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE: “In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million–all

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“THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND” written by Oliver Sacks

“THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND” written by Oliver Sacks

“THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND” written by Oliver Sacks   Featured Daily Dose of Science Monday – Friday @ 8:30-9:00pm   “An explorer of that most wondrous of islands, the human brain,” writes D.M. Thomas in The New York Times Book Review, “Oliver Sacks also loves the oceanic kind of islands.” Both kinds figure movingly in

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