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The coast was also called "the White man's grave" [17] [18] because of the mass amount of death from illnesses such as yellow fever, malaria, heat exhaustion, and many gastro-entero sicknesses. In 1841, 80% of British sailors serving in military expeditions on the Niger River were infected with fevers. [19]
Richard Patrick Dooling (born 1954) is an American novelist and screenwriter.He is best known for his novel White Man's Grave, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award for Fiction, and for co-producing and co-writing the 2004 ABC miniseries Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.
"The White Man's Burden" was first published in The New York Sun on February 1, 1899 and in The Times (London) on February 4, 1899. [7] On 7 February 1899, during senatorial debate to decide if the US should retain control of the Philippine Islands and the ten million Filipinos conquered from the Spanish Empire, Senator Benjamin Tillman read aloud the first, the fourth, and the fifth stanzas ...
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is a 2003 historical non-fiction book by Erik Larson presented in a novelistic style. . Set in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, it tells the story of World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and of H. H. Holmes, a criminal figure widely considered the first serial killer in the United ...
The presumably earliest reference to the society in Western literature can be found in George Banbury's Sierra Leone, Or the White Man's Grave (1888). [3] In Western culture, depictions of the society have been widely used to portray Africans as barbaric and uncivilized. [1]
That grave was dug by inmates and marked only by a number — 645 — hand-painted on a metal post. Gretchen Hankins Exhumation of Son, Jonathan Hankins (Ashleigh Coleman for NBC News)
The Karachi Christian Cemetery Board manages its affairs. Over time the condition of the cemetery has deteriorated. [1] In 1995, a group called CARE (Caring, putting into Action, and Restoring the Environmental degradation of the cemetery), made up of people from all parishes and churches, made it their objective to make the cemetery a clean and peaceful resting place for the departed.
Loose Among Devils: a voyage from Devil's Island to those jungles of West Africa labelled "the white man's grave". 1935. Doubleday, Doran & Gundy. Khyber Caravan: through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India 1936. Simon & Schuster of Canada. ISBN 0-671-80178-3; Bright Paths to Adventure. 1945. McClelland & Stewart.