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written. When he met Sørlle in Stromness, Shackleton and the others were amazed to find that the war was ongoing and its scale was so large. It took them many weeks to adjust, although Shackleton had to learn quickly, as his requests to the British government to provide help in rescuing the crew from Elephant Island fell on deaf ears. Shackleton’s reception by the British public was mixed at best, with many people questioning the worth of expensive and resourcesapping adventuring at a time of dire need. Many of the crew served in
failed, reaching the South Pole in 1911. But no one had yet crossed Antarctica or reached the pole from the Weddell Sea. On August 8, 1914, the Endurance set sail for Buenos Aires. There it would collect Shackleton and proceed to Antarctica, its eventually permanent destination. The outbreak of hostilities in Europe, with Britain joining the war on August 4, almost put a stop to proceedings barely a week in. Shackleton had contacted the British government to offer his services to the war effort, requesting only
were strongly biased toward males rather than females. And while tsog tsuam attacks occurred in Laos as well as in America, it was specifically Hmong immigrants—many of them refugees following the Vietnam War—who were susceptible to the fatal attacks. This spirit of death was selective in who it came for. Through her research, Adler was able to identify some key factors that provide clues to this pattern. First, the Hmong community has been traumatized and displaced. Those living in the United States in the
Hurricane Vincent spat him out of the way, setting his progress back four days. He had to batten down the hatches and wait it out until the calm came again. And while Leven was alone on the voyage, he had consciously taken someone with him: his grandfather, who had fought at the Battle of Nijmegen in World War II. Leven had his grandfather’s dog tags, marked with the sign of St. Christopher, the patron saint of travelers. If a voice had spoken to him, he would have liked it to be his grandfather. But it wasn’t. It