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ALIMENTOS MAIS CONSUMIDOS NO MUNDO
O grande campeão é o leite. A cada ano, cerca de 479 milhões de toneladas desse produto vão parar em copos e pratos espalhados pelo mundo. A quantidade de alimentos consumidos no planeta é calculada e...
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O QUE UM VEGANO PODE CONSUMIR?
O veganismo, surgido oficialmente na Inglaterra em 1944, rejeita qualquer bem de consumo obtido pela exploração animal. Isso inclui não só alimentos mas também cosméticos e artigos de limpeza, além, é...
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UNITED STATES MINT & CURRENCY DENOMINATION.
The United States Mint was created on Apr. 2, 1792, by an act of Congress, which established the U.S. national coinage system. In 1799 the mint became an independent agency reporting directly to the...
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THE SIMONIAC HERESY
For throughout the region up to Romuald’s time the custom of simony was so widespread that hardly anyone knew this heresy to be a sin. Peter Damiani, Life of Romuald, Chapter xxxv At the beginning of...
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A MENTIRA
Toda criança aprende que a mentira é um feio pecado. Mas os mesmos adultos que lhe ensinam essa verdade mentem mais do que aceitam confessar. Viver sem mentir parece tão difícil como viver sem...
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DOMESTICATION OF PLANTS- CULTURAL EVOLUTION THEORY
The earliest domestication of plants may have been in the Near East’s “Fertile Crescent,” an area that stretches from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and curves around like a quarter moon to...
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JEJUM E ABSTINÊNCIA DE CARNE
Na Quaresma – período de 40 dias que começa na Quarta-Feira de Cinzas e termina às vésperas da Páscoa, festa da ressurreição de Jesus Cristo – os fiéis católicos e ortodoxos se submetem ao jejum e à...
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ANCIENT EGYPT - POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE
Rulers of all kinds, but especially hereditary monarchs, have instinctively recognized the cohesive power of ceremony and display, the capacity of public ritual to generate popular support. The ancient...
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MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN MEDIEVAL GERMANY
The Early Middle High German term ê (modern German Ehe, "marriage") meant "law" and referred to the Old Testament. Only after 1000 did the term acquire other meanings, and only since the thirteenth...
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SLAVERY IN MEDIEVAL GERMANY
Slavery was practiced throughout Germany in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In those territories, west of the Rhine and south of the Danube, that were accustomed to the Roman system, there...
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NYOTAIMORI, THE NAKED SUSHI
Do your favorite things in the world include fish, seaweed, and sex? Do you love sushi but wish it could be a little rawer?Then find a restaurant that offers nyotaimori. Literally translated as “female...
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A VOMITORIUM
Here’s a bit of cocktail trivia for you: a vomitorium is not actually a room where ancient Romans went to barf.I know. You don’t want to believe me—thanks to a misunderstanding popularized in many...
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QUEM É O DIABO? ELE ESTÁ VIVO...
Requintado e com menos poderes, o diabo sobrevive às previsões de que ele não resistiria ao avanço da ciência e reacende no século XXl velhos dilemas da condição humanaNinguém jamais recebeu tantos...
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HOW TO IDENTIFY ANTI-AGING NUTRIENTS
Each of the food entries in the nutrition counter has information in the following categories: food name, portion size, calories, total fat, good fats, bad fats, fiber, sugar, beta-carotene, calcium,...
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CRISTIANISMO: UMA UTOPIA NO SERTÃO
A utopia cristã de um mundo de justiça, paz e simplicidade foi semeada nos sertões nordestinos do Brasil como ânimo em meio ao sofrimento imposto às populações por tantos anos. Experiências...
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O SUCESSO DA NOVA CULINÁRIA ESCANDINAVA
Novos chefs da Escandinávia alcançam o topo da gastronomia mundial Cozinhas que emplacaram globalmente podem ser condensadas em poucas imagens. O Japão é sushi; a Itália, pizza e pasta; os EUA,...
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LE RIRE, BON REMÈDE POUR PRÉSERVER LA SANTÉ
Les Français voient le rire comme un moyen efficace de rester en bonne santé. D'après un sondage réalisé par l'Ifop pour GlaxoSmithKline, rendu public jeudi 28 février, une grande majorité des Français...
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EROTISMO, LA FÓRMULA MÁGICA PARA COMBATIR LA RUTINA
* Los juegos deben ser consensuados y libres por los dos miembros de la pareja.* Según los expertos, es tan sólo un elemento más de estimulación.La literatura erótica está de moda. Tras el fenómeno de...
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INVENTION OF KNIFE
c.2.600.000 BCEAustralopithecine HominidsGONA, ETHIOPIA The use of our first tools assured human survival, and the appearance of stone knives marks the beginning of the archaeological record. Since...
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THE DISEASE OF TRADE
Kaffa resembled a medieval version of the American frontier railhead, the last European city before the border with the vast Mongol khanates that spread all the way east to China. Around 1266, the...
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