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MASTER HEALTHY COOKING METHODS
Healthy cooking isn't complicated. In fact, you probably already know the basics of grilling, steaming, and stir-frying-techniques that capture the flavor and nutrients of food without adding lots of...
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EATING IN ALPUJARRAS
Head to this rugged region in the far south of Spain and you’ll find kitchens peppered with Moorish influences and robust, seasonal cooking that shines in dishes such as bean, fennel and pork stew, and...
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VICTORIA AND ALBERT WAS THEIRS REALLY SUCH A PERFECT MATCH?
Victoria and Albert, and children, painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1846To the outside world, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were the golden couple, exemplars of traditional family values. Yet,...
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MIDDLE AGES - DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SCRIPTORIUM MONK
The scribes who kept learning alive endured a punishment daily routine.Monastic life was organised around the eight canonical offices spread across the day when members of the community came together...
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THE DEVIL'S MONK - AN UNHOLY HOLY MAN
Eight hundred years ago, oneof the most hated men in England met a grisly end. As the battle of Sandwich – fought off the Kent coast on 24 August 1217 between the English and French navies – reached...
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DINE LIKE A HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR WITH A BYZANTINE RICE PUDDING.
How to make a Byzantine rice pudding(Ancient dessert Byzantium, 330 a.D)Byzantium offered a unique blend of fusion cuisine. It combined Roman cooking with traditions from Greece and the eastern...
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BYZANTINE FOOD
The civilization of Constantinople is sometimes misunderstood as a poor imitation of classical Greece and Rome. From the perspective of medieval western Europe, however, Constantinople was a city of...
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ROMANTISMO NA LITERATURA NO BRASIL NO DECÊNIO DE 1850
Antonio CandidoO decênio de 1850 viu também o que se costuma chamar, à maneira dos portugueses, Ultra-romantismo, tendência que vinha dos anos de 1840 e se expandiu nesse, numa espécie de literatura da...
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COMO ERA O SEXO NA ANTIGUIDADE?
Prostituição e homossexualidade eram comuns, mas havia leis severas para punir abusos.Na Antiguidade, a prostituição era regulamentada, o divórcio começou a existir e havia até deuses do sexo! Os...
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UMA BREVE HISTÓRIA DO BRASIL - UMA 'BELLE'ÉPOQUE NÃO TÃO 'BELLE'
Avenida Central (atual Rio Branco) no Rio de Janeiro no início do século XXOs anos posteriores à proclamação da República foram marcados por um turbilhão de mudanças. A europeização, antes restrita ao...
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THE BLACK PRINCE - A MEDIEVAL MONSTER
Edward Plantagenet, Prince of Wales ('The Black Prince')History’s verdict is damning. At the height of the Hundred Years’ War, the BLACK PRINCE, heir to the English throne, ordered the massacre of...
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BRASIL - O SONHO DOS ESCRAVOS ERA TER ESCRAVOS
"Navio Negreiro" fotografia de Marc FerrezO 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...
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THE FUTURE OF FOOD
Chef's specials in 2050: Insects and artificial meat. Appetising insects, lab-grown burgers, and plant-based 'meat' including artificial blood. Global demand is skyrocketing, and cows sheep, pigs and...
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FIVE PREGNANCY MYTHS - TRUE OR FALSE
1. Unborn Baby Can Taste Mum’s FoodThe umbilical cord doesn't carry food, only blood. Yet the amniotic fluid around the developing foetus can take on certain flavours, and surprisingly fast...When a...
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THE HISTORY OF OUR MORNING ROUTINE
Ancient Roman underwear1. Sleep like a log, on a stoneSince time immemorial, the morning routine has begun in bed. Sleep has always been a physiological necessity and the oldest evidence for a bed...
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SOME INVENTIONS & DISCOVERIES
The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer, developed by Tommy Flowers1. Who really discovered… DNA?Francis Crick and James Watson are the scientists most often associated with the...
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THE GLORIOUS CAESARS
Rome's first emperors are often decried as tyrannical, sex-mad monsters, but the likes of Augustus, Caligula and Nero brought peace and stability to the Roman world.Almost 2,000 years after his death,...
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LIFE IN THE ICE AGE
Looking cool, keeping warm. When the ice came, close-fitting, warm, fur clothes sewn with needles offered insulating protection against the cold. New discoveries and accurate DNA analyses give...
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CAMINHOS ANTIGOS DE MINAS GERAIS
Os antigos caminhos de penetração em Minas Gerais são ainda pouco conhecidos e muito debatidos, não obstante os trabalhos de Moacyr Silva. Creio mesmo, que todos se firmam nas narrativas de Antonil, o...
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THE NEW WAR ON OBESITY
It seems like a simple solution: To curb the obesity problem, make unhealthy foods more expensive and people will eat less of them.Local governments around the country—including Philadelphia, San...
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