Photo: Janet Jordon
When I first came to New York thirty five years ago, the closest thing to wildlife in the waters of the harbor were what we referred to as “Hudson River trout” – condoms that had been flushed through the New York sewer system into the river, that seemed to swim in and out with the tides. Fortunately things have changed considerably since then. Last April we posted about a harbor seal which chose to sunbathe in the Hudson River on the remains of an old Jersey City dock, directly across from Manhattan. For over a hundred years there had been no seals in New York harbor until in 2006 when they began to return. This year there is a colony of seals on Swinburne Island, just outside the mouth of the inner harbor. Seal watching boats have been running every weekend. Seal watching season ends in New York by about the end of April when most seals migrate north.
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A very interesting presentation at the 
On March 20th, 1602 the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, the VOC, or in English, the United Dutch East India Company was established as a chartered company. It would dominate European trade with Asia for almost 200 years.
Last November, 
The 
This sounds like a wonderful gig for the right artist.
The son of a fisherman, who moved on to selling khat, Saeed Yare became a pirate only two years ago and “earned” over $2.4 million in 2010 in ransom of ships and crews. It is estimated that 
It is being reported that 
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On April 1st, last year, fittingly enough, April Fool’s Day, a