Suffering a drop of 273 points - the biggest by any team in the world - Cape Verde fell from fifth in the African list to 15th, and 75th place in the world.
Until after World War II the cape was a stretch of barren, sandy scrubland.
The world swooned (that red cape! that flower neckline!), but again, some of us a little harder than others.
With the exception of a few small Dutch ports in the East Indies, the world east of the Cape of Good Hope was now either under British control or in the hands of neutral powers and Britain's allies.
The legal battle culminated in Mr Dewani being flown to Cape Town in October to face the world's media in Western Cape High Court.
World War II-era Capes, high ranches, narrow two-story houses and split levels, most on 50- or 60-by-100-foot lots, line the blocks.
Behind them are streets of white-shingled Victorian houses and, behind them, tracts of comfortable post-Second World War developer-built Capes and Colonials.
I mean your Farewell to Arms/first world war nurses in capes and long pinnies, obviously, not those tetchy women from ER in polyester coveralls.
The listing is not particularly remarkable: a World War II-era, Cape-style house just outside Mount Kisco, N.Y., with a cherry wood and granite kitchen and four bathrooms selling for $699,000, a modest price by the standards of leafy Westchester County villages.
How about (for starters) Batman Goes to Jurassic World, in which the caped crusader is called in to face down the bastard offspring of T-Rex and Indominus Rex, or perhaps Spider-Man v Godzilla, in which the wisecracking wall crawler must bring down the greatest prehistoric monster to ever walk the earth with only Aunt May's sage advice to guide him?
The Golden Globe trophy was offered to the first person to complete an unassisted, non-stop single-handed circumnavigation of the world via the great capes, and a separate £5,000 prize was offered for the fastest single-handed circumnavigation.
