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Singapore the City of No

My great grand-aunt, Bert, circumnavigated the globe in the 1870s, when she was 12 years-old. Her father was the captain of sailing ship. I first met her in 1958. She was almost 100. Her house in Falmouth, Massachusetts was decorated with the curios of several continents; scrimshaw whale teeth, Zulu war shields, and ornate opium […]