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San Francisco’s “Titanic”: The Loss of SS City of Rio de Janeiro

San Francisco Maritime Museum 900 Beach St, San Francisco, CA, United States

The 1901 shipwreck of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s SS City of Rio de Janeiro was the deadliest ever at the Golden Gate. Maritime archaeologist and historian James Delgado will […]

The Enduring Lifestyle of the Ancestral Maya

Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building, University of Illinois 707 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL, United States

Borowski lecture Ancient tropical societies dealt with the same issues we face today—climate instability, growing populations, overuse of resources, and so on. One of the major issues at present is growing concern about providing adequate supplies of clean drinking water. We can learn from past tropical societies, including the ancestral Maya of Central America, whose […]