Darwin slept around

Charles Darwin in Uruguay

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January 22nd 2011
Dear reader Charles Darwin, the naturalist, was a great traveller, always sniffing about. At 22, he travelled from England on the H.M.S. Beagle to South America on a two-year survey, and spent most of 1833 in and around Uruguay and Argentina. During his round the world trip, Darwin kept a diary. If he’d had access to the internet, ... read more

South America » Uruguay

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A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand i... ... read more