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Remembering Esteban Vicente — innovative educator, daring explorer, and tall ship pioneer
With the Spanish sail training schooner Atyla up for sale, this is a repost of a 2023 article I wrote for Western Colorado University’s student paper about the man who built the ship: Esteban Vicente. This is a repost of a Top o’ the World article from 2023. The Spanish sail training ship Atyla continues balancing tradition and innovation,…
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Some Things Never Change
Three hundred years after pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read boarded ships with their shirts open to intimidate their enemies, we’re still scared of boobs. Today, I watched a documentary about the 18th century pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read and renewed my CPR certification, during which I couldn’t help but notice that, three centuries…
Kira Rambles 