Penguins!

Classes Done

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May 18th 2009
So I'm not very good at keeping a blog. I just realized I haven't written for the entire second half of the semester. I just finished classes on Friday, and now I have the week off before I have any finals. I'll try to think of a few interesting things I have done that I can write about, though a lot of my time was spent writing papers 😞. I didn't do anything extremely exciting, but soon ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Western Cape

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more