Probably no reader has heard of Niihau. It is the smallest inhabited island of the Hawaiian archipelago, privately owned since the 19th century and would not be of more interest than merely tourist interest -a minority, on the other hand- were it not for two very different reasons, exactly half a ce
Discovered by Jacques Cartier in 1534, Quebec (Province of present-day Canada) was the first French colony in North America, after the founding of the city of Quebec by Champlain in 1608. Its history is therefore intertwined in its beginnings with that of New France . To understand Quebec psychology
The years 1763-1774 saw the rise of colonial opposition to British claims, marked by a series of laws of a fiscal nature, quickly repealed by the central power. American resistance to Londons mercantilism and fiscal policy sometimes degenerated into episodic, yet unthreatening, riots and revolts. Co
The myth tells that Evadne, who was the daughter of Poseidon, had a son with Apollo, of which she was ashamed, and therefore she abandoned him to her fate. But the boy survived thanks to two snakes feeding him honey, until someone found him lying among violets and gave him the name Yamo. When he w