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CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
Although the Church of Scientology, established by the late L. Ron Hubbard, is not a secret society as such, it most certainly operates in a fashion dictated by extensive secrecy. Both current and...
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THE BUTCHERY ROOM
What do butchers do? The obvious answer is that they cut meat, prepare it to be sold, and sell it. The less obvious answer requires thinking beyond the meat counter. Butchers are a powerful fulcrum in...
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KABBALAH
Drawing upon Judaism, Kabbalah is a mystical tradition that centres on receiving knowledge of God and guidance for everyday living.Think of lhe mystical religion Kabbalah and many will immediately...
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XINGAR EM VOZ ALTA,DE FATO, DIMINUI A DOR
E não adianta usar qualquer palavra. Um estudo mostrou que palavrões mais pesados provocam mais alívio do que outros mais “leves”.Existe toda uma área de pesquisa que estuda os efeitos “analgésicos”...
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A ASSUSTADORA HISTÓRIA DA MEDICINA - OS BARBEIROS DEMONIACOS
A cirurgia moderna foi inventada pela pólvora.HONRAS DE BATALHAAtravés do avanço inexorável da civilização, os golpes de espadas e lançamento de flechas foram superados, mais ou menos em 1450, pela...
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A HISTORY OF RACIAL FETISHIZATION
Sir Mix-a-Lot’s 1992 smash-hit ‘Baby Got Back’ hit the airwaves as a tongue-in-cheek celebration of black women’s bodies – an auditory fuck you to the super-thin, white women that dominated Western...
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MONKS AND MONASTERIES
The Love of Learning and the Desire for GodRight from the early years of Christianity, there were many Christians who wanted to worship in the way they believed Christ meant them to: reflectively,...
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MYTH-INFORMATION - DECIPHERING FACT FROM FICTION IN FOOD AND NUTRITION
In my career as a registered dietitian-nutritionist, university professor, and addiction counselor, numerous patients, colleagues, family members, and friends have come to me confused, irritated, and...
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COOK'S SCIENCE - HOW TO UNLOCK FLAVOR
Our Process: The Test KitchenIt takes months of research, testing and retesting, and writing and rewriting to develop a recipe at America’s Test Kitchen. The test kitchen does tend to attract type A...
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CACHAÇA NAS MINAS GERAIS SETECENTISTA
No dia 25 de novembro de 1700, foi instaurada uma devassa no Morro do Ouro Fino – um daqueles que viria a constituir Vila Rica do Pilar de Ouro Preto. Na ocasião, todos os inquiridos deram notícias,...
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D. MARIA I DE PORTUGAL - UMA RAINHA ENLOUQUECIDA
Retrato de dona Maria I, pintado por Giuseppe Troni, exposto no Palácio Nacional de Queluz, em PortugalOito anos após subir ao trono, uma sucessão de mortes na família real portuguesa começou a abalar...
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DITADURA DERROTADA - O SACERDOTE E O FEITICEIRO
GEISEL, O SACERDOTENo dia 22 de agosto de 1972, quando a Censura voltou a proibir a imprensa de tratar da sucessão do presidente Emilio Garrastazú Medici, ela já estava...
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THE DARKER SlDE OF GOD
If you ask Christians to describe their quasi-chosen god of worship, you’ll often hear such descriptors as “wonderful” and “loving.” This choice of selective designation seems commonplace within the...
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EATING LONDON
‘I think what’s going on with gorillas is pretty bad.The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.’(Adam Ant)Dishes Invented in LondonScotch EggsThe word ‘tartan’ is English...
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DISEASES OF CIVILIZATION
The potato took 200–250 years, in spite of organized encouragement, to become accepted in England. It took only fifty years in Ireland. Maize and cassava have come to be accepted in parts of Africa in...
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O POSITIVISMO NO BRASIL
Altar da Igreja Positivista do Rio de Janeiro, com a imagem da deusa Humanidade inspirada em traços de Clotilde de VauxO positivismo de Auguste Comte exerceu larga influência nos mais variados...
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AUTHENTIC NORWEGIAN COOKING
Norway is a winterland where snow covers most of the country for more than half of the year. It also is a land of mountains where only 3 percent of the land can be cultivated.Norway has a long rugged...
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BAKERY PRODUCTS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - EGGS
IntroductionThe chicken’s (Gallus domesticus) egg is a unique food material. It constitutes a source rich in valuable nutrients including proteins of exceptional biological value, phospholipids,...
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THE HISTORY OF BRAAING IN SOUTH AFRICA
Scientifically speaking, South Africans are not only the best braaiers in the world, but braaing also originated here. During the recording of the first Jan Braai TV show in 2011, we visited the...
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WINE AND THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
In 1994, in a hopeful time as a new democracy came to the land of apartheid, South African wine ventured out into the world—a world of which it was terribly ignorant, and which, in turn, had largely...
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