In 1868 and again in 1916, what was then the Danish West Indies voted to leave Denmark and join the U.S., and the U.S. agreed the second time. The territory is now called the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The team responsible for one of the Bay Area’s most talked about fine-dining restaurants, the two-Michelin-star Lazy Bear, is expanding. Partners David Barzelay and Colleen Booth are opening JouJou, a ...
Guadeloupe to fell iconic coconut palms The Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, famous for its tropical beaches, plans to remove some of its iconic coconut palms to stem coastal erosion and eradicate a ...
Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez's New Year's Eve sunbathing session aboard his $500 million yacht Koru was interrupted by an unexpected visit from the ...
The first reliable record is from the 1650s, by G. A. Cavazzi da Montecuccolo in what is now Congo or Angola. By the late 1600s writers noted three kinds of undergound beans on the Gold Coast. One of ...