St. Helena and the Ghost of Napoleon.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/trave...um=socialmedia
St. Helena and the Ghost of Napoleon.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/trave...um=socialmedia
Posted that one a while ago: https://geoexpat.com/forum/84/thread351667.html
To make the discussion relevant to Hong Kong, long-form articles are so rare here.
That reminds me: FactWire has not published anything this month -- wished they published weekly/bi-weekly, but I understand that (long-form) investigative journalism is hard work. Maybe they need more donations?
I remember that story from before. Sounds to me like there was a serious amount of crystal meth involved.
I know it is just journalistic licence and scene setting but the Pasig River won an international award last year for its rehabilitation and wasn't as described when the body was dumped. They would never have found the body if it had been
Sorry to interrupt this flow of amazing sounding articles, but I think this app is worth sharing.
Pocket is great for saving such articles for later offline reading, install the plugin on your desktop, save to pocket and read it later on your mobile device.
It's free (apart from the usual privacy harvesting)
Enjoy
https://getpocket.com/
A random post about underwater cables reminded me of my top longread.
Here's a GEM that I read decades ago when Wired was still printed.
The author, Neil Stephenson remains my favorite SciFi author.
From 1996
https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/