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The City With No Spare Inch

An entire capital city packed onto a single tiny island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, with barely an inch to spare. Looking at aerial photos of Malé, the capital of the Maldives, it’s impossible not to wonder about the fragility of cities, civilization, and the strange places human beings insist upon calling home.

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New Amsterdam, 360 Years Ago

The original New Amsterdam fort the Dutch built on lower Manhattan island was established in 1625, but the actual city of New Amsterdam was incorporated today, three hundred and sixty years ago.  Of course, the name didn’t last too long.  The English bopped along in four frigates in 1665 and dubbed the thriving city New

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