13-Jan-1833: The day HMS Beagle nearly sank
Charles Darwin's closest brush with death during the Beagle voyage came on Sunday 13th January 1833, near that most infamous of nautical perils, Cape Horn.
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The Chilean Earthquake
As witnessed by Charles Darwin in 1835.
It makes one's blood boil
Slavery still occurring in Brazil 173 years after Darwin left.
Postcard from the ends of the Earth
From Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, in fact.