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Jamaica originally began as a military garrison under Cromwell’s Western Design in 1655, which brought English soldiers to the island.[1] Due to the harsh environment of the Caribbean, the island was, “a dis […]

By: Giovanny Bravo

Introduction

In 1965, around the beginning of the Cuban Revolution, the Cuban government established the Unidades Militares de Ayuda a la Producción (UMAPs), which were labor camps […]

By Maureen Hanes

Introduction

Machismo, a distinctly Latin
American form of masculinity, is an important aspect of Mexican national
identity. Although machismo is often viewed as a singular idea centered […]

Alexander Borodin: Chemist Poet-Composer
Alexander Borodin was a Russian composer born 1833 in St. Petersburg to a Georgian prince and serf mother. Alexander Borodin was formally educated as a chemist at St. P […]

Georg Cantor was a German mathematician who was born and grew up in Saint Petersburg Russia in 1845. He helped develop modern day set theory, a branch of mathematics commonly used in the study of foundational […]

This blog is focused on Anna Pavlova, a Russian ballerina. It will offer an overview of her life, from being the illegitimate daughter of a laundress, to her legacy as one of Russia’s most famous dancers. It will […]

As we’re currently living through a pandemic, I thought that it might be interesting to look at how a different infectious disease played out over a century ago–and I was surprised to find many parallels. Cholera […]

This webpage is dedicated to Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel’s 1890 work Demon Cidyatsti/The Demon Seated. It will provide background on the artist and the evolution of his style, a look a the Russian Symbolist M […]

A Boolean Model of Microglial Phenotype Transitions Under Acute and Chronic Inflammation
Class of 2020

Biography

Education

Thang Long high school for the gifted, Da Lat city, Vietnam
The College […]