**Captain Cook: Why the 18th-Century Explorer is Trending in the 21st-Century Internet** Alright, folks, gather ’round the digital campfire. We’re about to embark on a journey that’s hotter than a sunbaked deck of the HMS Endeavour. That’s right, we’re talking about Captain James Cook, the 18th-century explorer who’s suddenly trending harder than a #ThrowbackThursday hashtag….
**The Torch, the Tracks, and the Great National Therapy Session: Cathy Freeman’s 400-Meter Appointment with History** *By our correspondent, still recovering from watching nations outsource their self-esteem to people in Lycra* Sydney, 25 September 2000. The planet had survived Y2K only to be confronted by something equally apocalyptic: an Olympic Games where the host nation’s…
Jacobo Morales, the Puerto Rican filmmaker who has spent half a century reminding the world that small islands can still have big existential crises, turns 92 this year—an age at which most auteurs are content to let their Oscars gather dust while younger generations misquote them on TikTok. Yet Morales persists, a Caribbean Beckett in…
When the name “Elizabeth” trends on the wires from Lagos to Lima, it’s rarely because some Windsor great-grandmother has misplaced her handbag. The algorithmic pulse that now dictates global attention has flattened history into a single, slightly dented coin: flip it and you’ll get either a monarch or a meme. In 2024, Elizabeth is no…
