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HISTORICAL QUESTS FOR JESUS
The last two centuries have seen many shifting scholarly judgements about the figure of Jesus before arriving at something approximating a consensus today about the general course of his life. This is...
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LA GASTRONOMIA AUSTRALIANA
En la mayoría de los casos todos sentimos una atracción natural por lo desconocido. Tal es la impresión que produce sobre los europeos, Australia. …. Un extraño efecto de magnetismo por su exotismo,...
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EVERYDAY SURVIVAL HACKS - TIDYING UP
1 Double up on your welcome mats. A nice welcome mat gives guests a place to wipe their feet—but a second mat inside the door will catch a lot of the dirt they knocked loose outside. Be sure to shake...
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DAILY HUMAN SACRIFICES OFFERED TO AZTEC GODS
How many?The Aztec civilisation had around 10 million subjects. Constant human sacrifices meant the number of victims was huge - probably th e greatest number in human history.Who?One male and one...
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THE HIERONYMAN THEOGONY
Like the Eudemian theogony, our title “Hieronyman theogony” comes from Damascius’ De Principiis (sixth century ad),1 but there is less confusion over its contents. Damascius provides more information...
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THE AMERICAN WEST
In the colonial era tens of millions of voluntary and forced immigrants came west from Europe and Africa to the Americas. In the nineteenth century that motion continued as millions of Americans of...
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SEXO - DAS "CANTADAS" NA ROMA ANTIGA AOS DILEMAS CONTEMPORÂNEOS
A jornada do homem em busca do prazer começa no instinto de autopreservação dos genes. Mas no meio tem a aventura do descobrimento do próprio corpo e as vontades não ditas de experimentar novas...
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AN UNCOMMON HISTORY OF COMMON THINGS - FOOD
Natural selection and discriminating palates have seen to it that we choose our foods carefully, so it’s not surprising that much of what we consume has been part of our diets for a long time. We’ve...
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O SONHO DOS ESCRAVOS ERA TER ESCRAVOS
O livro Mulheres Negras do Brasil, de Schuma Schumaher e Érico Vital Brazil, foi lançado em 2007 com patrocínio do Banco do Brasil e da Petrobras. Um capítulo da obra trata das mulheres negras livres...
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GUIA DOS CURIOSOS
Por que as pessoas têm chulé?Mesmo sem chulé, o pé tem um cheiro característico. Todos os animais produzem certas substâncias no corpo que exalam odor, são os feromônios. Eles servem para identificar o...
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FALTA DE PADRÃO COLOCA EM XEQUE PÃO INTEGRAL
Os pães integrais roubaram a maior parte do espaço do tradicional pão branco nas prateleira dos supermercados, recheadas de embalagens com carimbos como “100% integral” ou “com farinha integral”. No...
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CAFÉ E DEMÊNCIA: SERÁ QUE A BEBIDA PODE SALVAR NOSSA MEMÓRIA?
Beber café contribui para reduzir o risco de desenvolvimento de doenças neurodegenerativas, tais como Alzheimer - a forma mais comum de demência - e Parkinson.Um novo estudo sugere que o consumo de até...
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AUTHENTICITY AND EXPERIENCE IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD TOURISM
IntroductionThe aim of this paper is to analyze the practices of sustainable food tourism in Italy. In recent years, food sustainability has found in tourism practice an important channel for promoting...
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AMERICAN HISTORY - THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL
The Great Depression was arguably the most crushing economic downturn in American history. Its devastating impact did more than ruin many family’s finances. It tore apart families themselves. Pauline...
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CHEESEMAKING IN ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
Ancient civilizations are those up to and including the classical cultures of Greece and Rome. Cheese was already an important food in the early civilizations of western Asia and southern Europe, known...
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WHO IS YAHWEH?
It doesn’t take long in the biblical story for Israel to wind up in a precarious position. The story of Joseph (Gen. 37–50) explains why Israel went to Egypt. God’s providence turned the harm intended...
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EARLY ASTROLOGY IN MESOPOTAMIA
The origins of western astrology can be traced back about 4,000 years to ancient Mesopotamia, a geographical area that roughly coincides with what is now modern-day Iraq.' Around this time, people...
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HISTORY OF DRUNKENNESS IN THE DARK AGES
It’s a curious thing, but Roman wine got much farther than any Roman soldier ever did. The Roman army entered Germany, got to the Teutoburg Forest, were thoroughly massacred and never went back. But...
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INTRODUCING THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET
When you picture the Mediterranean diet, you may imagine the sea lapping up on a beach near a quaint village whose residents are lounging and eating fresh grapes and olives. That picture is a good...
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AFTER JESUS : LEGENDS OF THE EARLY CHURCH
The apocryphal texts we have examined so far focus primarily on the life of Jesus, from his birth to his early resurrection appearances. The texts are similar in many ways to the canonical Gospels,...
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