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HOUSEHOLDS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
The typical medieval peasant household was similar to the nuclear family known today but, just as today, it had infinite variations. Typically, a husband and wife plus their young children lived and...
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MYTH - SHAKESPEARE DIDN'T WRITE SHAKESPEARE
If you already think Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare, then you will be bracing yourself for yet another establishment cover-up; if you already think Shakespeare did write Shakespeare, then this...
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DE CACHAÇA E GINGA
N' ZingaA rainha N’Zinga tinha já 58 anos quando os holandeses conquistaram a cidade de São Paulo de Luanda, em 1641. A sua era uma longa história de diplomacia e guerras. “Uma guerreira astuta e...
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ISABEL, A REDENTORA
GETÚLIO DORNELLES VARGAS, o mais importante personagem da República brasileira no século XX, era ainda um menino de quatro anos quando os vereadores de sua cidade, São Borja, no Rio Grande do Sul,...
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LIE # 48 - SUNDAY IS THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH
Many Christians grew up being taught that Sunday is the Sabbath. Not only did they have to “go to church,” but they also needed to observe the day in other ways. Some wouldn’t eat in restaurants on...
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ASHOKA, THE BELOVED OF THE GODS
At Sarnath, between two and three hundred years after Shakyamuni Buddha first turned the Wheel of Dharma the Emperor Ashoka erected a pillar. The four lions at its crown representing the "lion's roar...
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O CHEIRO DO PRAZER
Hábitos de higiene, hoje associados ao prazer físico, eram inexistentes. Entre os habitantes da América portuguesa, a sujeira esteve mais presente do que a limpeza. E isso, durante séculos. O viajante...
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OF BAGELS AND KINGS
"According to legend, the bagel was produced as a tribute to Jan Sobieski, King of Poland, who had just saved Austria from an onslaught by Turkish invaders. In gratitude, a local baker shaped yeast...
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THE HEART OF THE VICTORIAN HOME: INSIDE THE COTTAGE KITCHEN
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.(Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, 1838)Whilst the men spent their days labouring in the fields and...
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MARIA LEOPOLDINA, A PRINCESA TRISTE
Maria Leopoldina Josefa Carolina de Habsburgo, primeira imperatriz brasileira, tinha tudo o que o marido, D. Pedro I, valorizaria numa mulher, menos o fundamental: beleza e sensualidade. “Uma louraça...
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TRAIÇÕES, ABUSOS E AGRESSÕES: O CASAMENTO CONTURBADO ENTRE D. PEDRO I E...
Sempre carinhoso com seus filhos, o monarca do Brasil Império era muito mais feroz com sua esposa, que sofria física e psicologicamente.Em épocas de aristocracia, o casamento nada mais é do que um...
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JUDAISMS OF THE 'OIKOUMENE'- WHO WERE THE JEWS IN THE ROMAN WORLD?
udaisms of the OY what?” Oikoumene is a Greek word, but one that has currency in English in the term “ecumenical.” In Late Antiquity, the oikoumene was the Hellenistic world, the lands of the...
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ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE
The emergence of agriculture is, along with the origins of civilization, the most described and debated event or process in prehistory. The debate can generally be divided into major approaches...
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BUDDHA'S DIET - WHY DO WE GET FAT?
Buddha loved data. Most religions are built on faith, but Buddha emphasized evidence. He wanted us to focus on seeing rather than believing.1 “Something may be fully accepted out of faith,” he...
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DARWIN'S LIST
Kent, 1859Just before Christmas in 1859, only a month after he had finally published On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection, Charles Darwin found himself disturbed, even haunted, by the thought...
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BRASIL COLÔNIA - A TERRA DO LENHO DO DIABO
Para os recém-chegados, a atividade possível vinha da exploração do pau-brasil, bela árvore que tem entre 10 e 15 metros de altura que se espalhava nas matas, do Rio Grande do Norte ao Rio de Janeiro....
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DELÍCIAS DO DESCOBRIMENTO - A GASTRONOMIA BRASILEIRA NO SÉCULO XVI
"Do que sabemos dos medas, persas, assírios, babilônios, fenícios, cartagineses, gregos, romanos, germânicos, hebreus, árabes, Idade Média, Renascimento é uma sinistra relação de fomes e...
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LIBIDO
Be ravenousAccording to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, approximately 43 percent of women (compared to 31 percent of men) suffer from low libido for one reason or...
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SEXUAL LIFE OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLE - MUTILATION OF SEX ORGANS
Mutilations of the sex organs are performed by many primitive peoples for religious reasons. They occur much more rarely for the purpose of sex stimulation, as, e.g., the artificial lengthening of the...
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THE MANY AFFAIRS OF ZEUS - ZEUS HAD MANY WOMEN, BOTH MORTAL AND IMMORTAL
Zeus is protected from all-seeing Kronos by his attentive nymph carers and the noise of the Kouretes, as shown in this 17th-century painting The Childhood of Zeus on Mount Ida.IN BRIEFTHEMELovers of...
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