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Manager Chummy Hayward and Olympians Phyllis Lightbourn, Phyllis Edness, Robert Cook and Walter Bardgett

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Bermuda makes Olympic splash


August 1948 - Bermuda made a splash in London at the 1948 Olympics, the first to be held since 1936, and the ensuing outbreak of the Second War War. It was second time Bermuda had competed at the Games but unlike in 1936, the contingent was integrated. Diver Francis (Goose) Gosling was the star of the squad, posting an imprssive 10th place finish.

Louis Mowbray

Born on August 19, 1877, Louis Leon Arthur Mowbray won international renown designing and running aquariums in the United States, before returning home to build the aquarium in Flatts. He was the first curator of the Bermuda Aquarium, and ran it for nearly 20 years, turning it into a world-class institution. An authority on tropical salt-water fish, he gave the yellow-fin tuna its original name, Allison tuna.


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Novel accomplishment

Bermuda College English lecturer Angela Barry has published her first novel. Gorée: Point of Departure traces the story of the Atlantic slave trade through a complex family history [more ...]

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