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How Singapore could have been Portuguese (or Spanish...)
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| | I recently went to the Singapore National Museum and came across this quote about what is now Singapore highlighted on a wall:Who is this Jacques de Coutre? That was actually the question on the mind of many Singaporeans after he was mentioned in a speech by their Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong marking the country's bicentennial in January 2019."When the Europeans came to Southeast Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries, they knew about the island Singapore. Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trad
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Fork & Page: A Year in Review
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| | Last week Fork & Page turned one years old! It was illuminating to look back at all the poetry reviews I had written over the past year for Fork & Page,
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CO2 is making Earth greener-for now - NASA Science
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| | A quarter to half of Earth's vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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'Hidden Symptoms' by Deirdre Madden - Reading Matters
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| Fiction - paperback; Faber &Faber; 144 pages; 2014. In recent years, Deirdre Madden has becomeone of my favourite writers. She has 10 novels to her name, but I've only reviewed three of them - One by One in the Darkness(published in 1996), Molly Fox's Birthday(2008) and Time Present and Time Past(2013) - which means Ihave...