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MUSA I, IL RE DELL'ORO
Musa I, sovrano del Mali nel XIV secolo, è considerato uno degli uomini più ricchi della Storia. Un vero nababbo grazie alle inesauribili miniere d’oro del suo Paese.Il più ricco di tutti i tempi?...
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NOUGAT
Friandise à base de fruits secs – noix ou amandes – et de sucre ou de miel. Traditionnellement, il se déguste tel, mais il peut participer à des entremets ou des pièces montées. Il peut aussi...
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SAINT GEORGE - LEGEND OR FACT?
George (d. ca. 303) Martyr, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, patron saint of many countries.St. George is considered to be one of the most illustrious martyrs in the Church, though most of what is...
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UNIÃO DOS EMPREGADOS NO COMÉRCIO DE BARRETOS - HISTÓRIA.
Antiga sede da União dos Empregados no Comércio Leopoldo CostaCom a chegada dos trilhos da Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro em maio de 1909 e a inauguração do frigorifico em 1913, a cidade de...
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BIOETHICS - EATING STUPID PIGS
Pigs are exceptionally intelligent animals. They’re able to solve odor quizzes, recognize themselves in mirrors, and even play rudimentary video games. One Cambridge University Professor, Dr Donald...
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SYNCRETIC CULTURES
Whenever two or more cultures come into contact, there is a mixing of some elements from each. Syncretism is one specific type of cultural blending that, in its most extreme form, results in the...
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WHEN COOKING BEGAN
"The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.”—CARLETON S. COON, The History of...
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LIVESTOCK OF THE EARLY EUROPEAN FARMERS
Although dogs, the first domestic animal, were already widespread among the later hunter-gatherers of Europe, livestock (domestic herd animals) appeared only with the first farmers (Early Neolithic)....
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EATING BETTER, SPENDING LESS
After housing and transportation, food is the largest expense incurred by most people. And as you will soon see, food is also an area with far greater environmental implications than most people...
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THE MYSTERIOUS LIVES OF ANCIENT BRITONS
The small tunnel in Halliggye FogouI usually start my week sat at an office desk in the heart of a busy city. Not today. This morning I find myself in the middle of a field, admiring the largest...
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THE GREAT 17TH-CENTURY GENDER SCARE
Smoke alarm A 17th-century engraving of a woman smoking a pipe.Men in early modern England feared that they were being outnumbered by women.By the middle of the 17th century, many English men believed...
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A VIKING FUNERAL
The distinctive and sometimes brutal customs undertaken during a medieval Nordic funeral.For any Norse warrior who fell on the battlefield, a grand funeral awaited them. Their body was laid in a wooden...
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MEDIEVAL JOBS
From catching rats in sewers to juggling for the king, discover the strange careers available in the Middle Ages.1. Herbalist.Using practical herbal remedies derived from plants and other natural...
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THE FIRST THANKSGIVING
01. It initiated an annual celebrationThanksgiving wasn’t celebrated officially until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, more than 200 years after the first. Prior to Abe, it was honoured on and off...
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ROMAN MYSTERY CULTS
Villa of Mysteries- PompeiiUncover the secret rites and bizarre rituals of the Roman spiritual underworld.Much of Roman religion was public in nature. It was all-important to the residents of the city...
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NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI, HERO OR VILLAIN?
Considered a master of manipulation, was Machiavelli a conniving political exile or a misunderstood, disillusioned satirist?Hailed as the father of modern politics, Niccolò Machiavelli has long been...
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LIFE AFTER MAN
From asteroid strike to climate change to nuclear war, humanity faces all kinds of existential threats. But if our species disappeared tomorrow, what would actually happen- and what kind of planet...
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HOW TO FALL IN LOVE
More than 20 years ago psychology professor Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Two years ago, I applied his technique in my own life, which is how I found...
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ORGE DIVINE
Riti di fertilità, accoppiamenti pubblici, prostitute sacre... Migliaia di anni fa sesso e religione erano tutt'uno.Ché, come scrisse il geografo greco Strabone (I secolo d. C.), 'La natura suggerisce...
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50, 100 & 150 YEARS AGO...INNOVATION AND DISCOVERY
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN1967 - GENE THERAPY“Some biologists have wondered if it might someday be possible to alter the genetic material of a human being, for example, to supply a deleted gene and...
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