Topic: Diego Garcia

Nacional Records 24 Song Giveaway!

Looking back on 2011, I posted my top five hip-hop albums of the year for Heard Mentality readers to check out. Had the scope been broader to...
Shelebration (A celebration of Shel Silverstein) Saturday at 7 p.m. Central Park SummerStage, at 69th St. and Fifth Ave.. . It's a toast to one of...
There isn't much connective tissue that binds the bands that appear at the Latin Alternative Music Conference each year. Except, of course, that...
WEDNESDAY 13. . SALSA: Veteran pianist, bandleader and producer Larry Harlow and the Latin Legends Orquestra featuring violinist Alfredo de la Fé...
The Chagossians of Diego Garcia and the other islands of the Chagos Archipelago, better known as British Indian Ocean Territory, have spent most of those years attempting to get back to their homeland from where they were so unceremoniously booted off by ...

Of Pirates Large and Small

As I write this, the U.S. Navy has rescued the captain of the merchant vessel Maersk Alabama, hijacked by Somali pirates five days previously. In 1971, it was home to 2,000 Chagossians, many of whom were fifth-generation descendants of Indian ...
Global positioning systems (GPS) are used for many things, including in-car navigation, ground surveying, flight navigation, hiking, hunting, fishing, golf and snowmobile trail guidance. GPS systems rely on three main components: the satellite component, the ground component and the user component. Ground ...
As housing market struggles to recover, foreign buyers see an irresistible opportunityThe Viceroy, a swanky condominium complex in downtown Miami, gives the impression that the United States is in another real estate boom. The sales office is strangely exuberant. Buyers gush about ...
JUST how committed is the new British Coalition Government to Human Rights - and in particular the much trampled human rights of the Chagossians who have spent the best part of forty years attempting to get back to their homeland in the Indian ...

How Frida Kahlo Worked

Next to Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, perhaps the most famous and recognizable 20th century Modern artist was a diminutive, seriously disabled...