Spices have their own riveting, piquant history
How spycraft and cartography flourished in their wake | Culture
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How Europe's hunger for rare spices sent Magellan to a painful death
Aboard Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage of 1519 to 1522, the greatest expedition of the Age of Discovery and the first to successfully circumnavigate the globe, was a single Englishman. Andrew of Bristol was the master gunner on the flagship, Trinidad. He made it across the newly-minted Pacific Ocean and, in doing so, unknowingly traversed the deepest part of Earth’s seas, the Mariana Trench.
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The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 - McMeekin, Sean: 9780143109808
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 by McMeekin, Sean at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0143109804 - ISBN 13: 9780143109808 - Penguin Books - 2016 - Softcover
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Barre voters approve new, larger school budget
The vote comes two months after voters in Barre City and Barre Town turned down a smaller version of the budget, one that school administrators said would have forced cuts across the district.
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Barre is looking to maintain affordability while drawing in more business activity
“I wouldn’t say it’s overdue, but it’s time,” Aimée Green, executive director of the Barre Area Development Corp., said about the lively business activity in downtown Barre.
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