Interesting Items for 6/3/2009
- Secret Origin of Klarion the Witch Boy? [crookedtimber.org]
- How and why Sonia Sotomayor’s parents are not immigrants. [edgeofthewest.wordpress.com]
The map below shows, to a considerable extent, why Puerto Rico is part of the United States. It appeared in Alfred Thayer Mahan’s essay, “The Strategic Features of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea,” from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine for October, 1897—just a little more than a year before Spain ceded the island to the United States. As you can see Puerto Rico straddled one of the routes to the as-yet-unbuilt canal through the as-yet-nonexistent…
