By BOB SCHULMAN (†) “Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California … and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons.” So wrote Spanish author Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo of a fictional paradise ruled by a black super-woman he called Queen
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Spanish explorers first showed up on the beaches of the Mexican fishing village of Cihuatlán in 1522
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Ranking in the highest tier of the Greek pantheon, Artemis was the goddess of the hunt (equivalent to the Roman goddess Diana), wild animals, childbirth and the protector of young girls, among other tags
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After eight years on the islands, the English missionary should have known that touching the head of a chief – especially a cannibal chief – is a huge no-no in Fijian culture
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Business was booming and airline traffic forecasts looked rosy in the mid-’60s when the carriers ordered their first jumbo jets, some twice the size of their workhorse Boeing 707s
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My first trip to Macau was a scene right out of Milton Caniff’s old-time Terry and the Pirates comic strip as we first skirted the hidden coves and towering, mist-shrouded peaks of Lantau Island
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