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GODIVA DOMESTICATED
Lady Godiva by John CollierIn 1856 Queen Victoria gave an oil painting of herself on horseback to her husband Albert as a present on his forty-seventh birthday. For his next birthday she gave him a...
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SOBRE LA PRAXIS DE LA MORAL SEXUAL
¿Cómo es posible que los cristianos, que saben, gracias a una revelación, que hay que renunciar a los vicios para ser felices eternamente y para no ser eternamente infelices, que mantienen a...
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POR QUE COZINHAR?
A certa altura, já no fim da meia-idade, fiz uma descoberta inesperada, porém feliz: muitas das perguntas que mais me preocupavam tinham na realidade uma única resposta:Cozinhar.Algumas dessas questões...
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ALL IN THE FAMILY: CASES OF HISTORICAL INCEST
Incest is a taboo in many cultures today. Relationships between cousins may sometimes be frowned upon, but are legal. However, society counts marriage or sexual relations between brothers, sisters,...
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CHURCHILL, O VISIONÁRIO
Uma das singularidades da língua inglesa — e das sensibilidades da mente inglesa — é que, enquanto a palavra visão é elogiosa, sugerindo um atributo positivo, visionário pode ter um sentido dúbio,...
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HISTÓRIA DO SOBRENATURAL E DO ESPIRITISMO - COMO TUDO COMEÇOU
VOCÊ ACREDITA EM FANTASMAS?Você acredita em fantasmas ou em almas do outro mundo? Crê em espíritos ou em mensagens do além? Então ouça esta história:Foi no princípio do século XX. Um adolescente...
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A SHORT HISTORY OF SAUCE MAKING
Perhaps in no period in history have a nation’s eating habits changed so profoundly as during the last three decades. Until twenty or thirty years ago, it seemed that the history of sauce making and...
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DEZ OCASIÕES EM QUE O MUNDO QUASE ACABOU
Mal-entendidos, computadores dando pau, militares nervosos, ou simplesmente uma ferramenta caindo no chão. Conheça dez momentos em que a hecatombe nuclear chegou muito perto de acontecer.5 DE OUTUBRO...
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DAILY LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES (1950-2000)
The last half of the twentieth century witnessed an increase in the amount of disposable income individuals and families had to engage in leisure activities but, ironically, also witnessed a decrease...
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8,000 YEARS OF BEER
On the upper end of estimates, it is thought that beer has been drunk for 8,000 years. It is possible to trace that history back, at least in part, to the Fertile Crescent, which is the Mediterranean...
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A BREAD BAKER'S JOURNEY : FROM DOUGHNUTS AND FRY OIL TO BRIOCHE AND BAGUETTES
For most of my life, I resisted becoming what I am. My parents split up when I was young, and because my older brother and sister were unreliable caretakers for a nine-year-old (as they were teenagers...
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A NATUREZA EUROPEIA FASCINOU OS ÍNDIOS
Leandro NarlochA imagem mais divulgada do descobrimento do Brasil é aquela dos portugueses na praia, com as caravelas ao fundo, sendo recebidos por índios curiosos que brotam da floresta. Na verdade,...
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BANQUETS IN CHINA
Banquets are the single most important way that Chinese greet friends, business colleagues, diplomats, and even enemies. If it’s a truism that all the “real business” is done outside the boardroom,...
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DEMONIZING THE SMELL OF WOMAN
The Zeeland-born physician Levinus Lemnius (1505–68) published a Latin work in 1559 that was widely read across Europe and translated into several languages. It claimed, ‘Since women abound with...
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FOOD AND DRINK IN AUSTRALIA
Once upon a time in a decade not so far away Australians proudly survived and thrived on a diet of ‘meat and three veg’. Fine fare was a Sunday roast that wasn’t cooked to carcinogenic stages and...
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THE MYTH OF THE GOOD DIETER AND THE TRUTH ABOUT PERMANENT WEIGHT LOSS
FOOD IS NOT THE ENEMY; TRADITIONAL DIETS AREHere is how it is supposed to go: You decide that you are unhappy with the way you look and feel. A diet plan or program gets your attention. You buy the...
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SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE NEW YOR CITY CABDRIVER -THE CREATION OF THE TAXI MAN
Modern cab driving stems from a grudge. In early 1907, a thirty-year-old New York businessman named Harry N. Allen became incensed when a hansom cab driver charged Allen and his lady friend five...
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SPECIAL DIET : THE VOICE AND LIFE HYGIENE
The custom of consuming potions for improving the voice can be traced back to the end of the fifth century BC. According to the logographer Antiphon, a law court discussed a case concerning a choregos...
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THE CHARACTER OF DRACULA : PERSONALITY TRAITS, MOTIVATIONS.
Dracula has always been one of those historical figures that fascinate mankind on multiple levels. It’s not that much of a stretch to compare him to other popular figures like Hitler, Stalin,...
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THE NEW SCIENCE OF SKIN - DETOXIFY
James Hamblin You really need to consult an attorney,” my girlfriend kept telling me.“It’s not a crime,” became my refrain. “I’m very confident it’s not a crime.”It turns out to be remarkably easy,...
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