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  • HAITI, AND COAKLEY ... Mark Steyn

    01/15/2010 12:13:30 AM PST · by Rummyfan · 23 replies · 1,622+ views
    Steyn Online ^ | 14 Jan 2010 | Mark Steyn
    HH: I begin this Thursday with Columnist To the World, Mark Steyn, www.steynonline.com. Very few people have traveled as far around the globe as Mark. Mark, have you ever seen anything remotely approaching this Haiti thing? MS: No, because I think Haiti is, certainly in the Western Hemisphere, as near as you can get to an entirely non-functioning state. By the standards of the Caribbean, it’s a failure and a disaster before the earthquake strikes. If an earthquake had happened to strike the Bahamas, or even the Turks And Caicos, it would not have looked like this. And that’s why...
  • Study: Scurvy Hit Early N. American French Colony

    11/29/2004 10:53:24 AM PST · by alessandrofiaschi · 25 replies · 1,073+ views
    Yahoo.com news ^ | 29/11/2004 | Alessandro Fiaschi
    Study: Scurvy Hit Early N. American French Colony 1 hour, 4 minutes ago Science - Reuters CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scurvy wiped out nearly half of the colonists who established one of the first French settlements in North America 400 years ago, scientists confirmed on Monday. The colony existed in 1604 and 1605 on St. Croix Island off present-day Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Nearly half of the 79 settlers died during the harsh winter, prompting survivors to move to what is now Nova Scotia in the summer of 1605. It was one of the earliest European outposts on...