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Just three years after the publication of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe , a youngster from Massachusetts suffered a fate similar to the pro...

The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, near the Caribbean, is unlike any other sea in this planet. The boundaries of the sea are defi...

At the northern end of Martinique, a French overseas island in the eastern Caribbean sea, stands Mount Pelée, a volcano that famously erupte...

The Caribbean is not all about sandy beaches, its about sandy synagogues too. As many as four synagogues in this part of the world have flo...

Bonaire is an island located off the north coast of South America near the western part of Venezuela, and like many Caribbean islands, Bonai...

The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope located close to the city of Arecibo in Puerto Rico, operated by Cornell University under coope...