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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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COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

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Signatories by category: Governments: Austria; Azerbaijan; Cambodia; Canada; Cape Verde; Chile; Croatia; Cyprus; Denmark; El Salvador; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Slovenia; Sweden; United Kingdom. .; —COP 26 Declaration.

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

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Similar to the genie stuck in Aladdin's lamp, the demon is slave to the master key, forced to obey the commands of anyone who unlocks its power. When Rob decides to travel to Havana, for instance, he somehow ends up in Brava, the smallest inhabitable island of the Cape Verde archipelago.

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