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How Charles Darwin Found Inspiration on the Cape Verde Islands

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Maukish & sweet with little flavor,” he noted in his journal from Santiago, the main island in the Cape Verde archipelago off the coast of West Africa. Cape Verde, then a Portuguese colony, gave Darwin his first taste of his own scientific talent. “He I know every road of Cape Verde,” Mr. Rodrigues assured me.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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Rob's father encourages his son's passion, seeing electricity as the future of civilization. When Rob decides to travel to Havana, for instance, he somehow ends up in Brava, the smallest inhabitable island of the Cape Verde archipelago. That latter innovation, the electric mailbox , was happening for real around that time.)