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LUCREZIA BORGIA
Bartolomeo Veneto’s 1515 refined portrait of Lucrezia BorgiaMarriage and Murder in Renaissance Italy. The illegitimate daughter of a pope and his mistress, Lucrezia...
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CHILE - EL MISTERIO DEL CRISTO DE MAYO Y EL TERREMOTO
Imaginen por un instante el siglo XVII en América. Una serie de pequeñas ciudades, en medio de un inmenso océano de territorio deshabitado, separadas por miles de kilómetros unas de otras; a días,...
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THE CATTLE-HERDERS IN AFRICA
There is still disagreement among archaeologists and other specialists on when, how and why humans domesticated their animals. By the available evidence, the people living in what is now the Sahara...
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DIET AND EATING BEHAVIOUR IN PREGNANCY
Changes in diet and eating behaviour are an essential part of the stereotypical image of pregnancy, but surprisingly little research has concentrated on what women actually eat and why. Pregnant women...
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THE DARK AGE OF GREECE
In Greece, between 1200 and 1050 BC, Dorian invaders bring a Dark Age.After the devastating victory at Troy, the Mycenaean ships had limped or blown back to the mainland of Greece, there to find that...
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A SCIENCE OF EROTICS: PLATO, (SYMPOSIUM)
Eryximachus, a speaker at Plato’s drinking party and a contemporary of the author of The Sacred Disease, practised medicine in Athens and was a friend of Socrates. This speech of his about Eros, Urania...
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HISTORY OF ABRAHAM
Abraham or Avraham (at first Abram, or Ibrahim in Arabic) is a central figure in Hebrew mythology as developed in the biblical Book of Genesis. Abraham was the mythical hero and “father” of all three...
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MYTHS OF LOVE AND DEATH
The earlier chapters of this book have contained countless myths telling of war, violence, monster slayings, revenge, and suchlike, so let us end in unashamedly romantic fashion with some inspirational...
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PRÁTICA RELIGIOSA E A DESCOBERTA DA AGRICULTURA
1. UM PARAÍSO PERDIDOO fim da época glaciária, por volta de 8.000, mudou de maneira radical o clima e a paisagem, e por conseguinte a flora e a fauna da Europa ao norte dos Alpes. O recuo dos gelos...
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VITAMINS AND HEALTH
Vitamins are organic micronutrients essential for health and the body’s proper growth, development, and function. They interact with each other or with other biochemicals in the body, functioning as...
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PHILOSOPHY IN ISLAM
Why “Philosophy in Islam”? Why not “Islamic Philosophy” or “Arabic Philosophy”? The simple answers to these questions and the far from simple consequences of those answers provide an entry into the...
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THE BODY OF THE PROSTITUTE- MEDIEVAL TO MODERN
Perceptions of the body of the prostitute underwent important changes in the early modern period. The advent of syphilis, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and especially the growth of the state...
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FALSOS CONCEITOS
EMANUEL GOTTLIEB LEUTZE - "Washington cruzando o Delawere" (1851)Samuel F. B. Morse na realidade não inventou o telégrafo. Conseguiu toda a informação necessária da invenção de um físico americano,...
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HUMAN SACRIFICE IN GREEK MYTH, CULT, AND HISTORY
INTRODUCTION: MYTH AND HISTORYIn this chapter I am interested principally in the ‘historical’ human sacrifices, by which I mean sacrifices which were presented as historical, and apparently believed to...
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WHAT IS BACON?
Food historians tell us human consumption of pork is ancient. So is cured (smoked, salted, dried) pork. Notes here:"Bacon. The side of a pig cured with salt in a single piece. The word originally meant...
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CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY- THE FAMILY
The family is one of the characteristic institutions of human society, but there is no reason to believe that all institutions are originated and explained in the family, that all relations of...
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THE ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE IN EUROPE- LBK ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
The Linienbandkeramik (LBK) appears around 5400 BC and represents the next major agricultural transition. It is characterised by settlements of substantial longhouses, except in its eastern extension,...
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ANIMALS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
INTRODUCTIONA strikingly common feature among early Old World civilizations was the pervasive importance of other species of animal life, both wild and domestic. Beyond the forms of utility that some...
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MEDIEVAL MOST WANTED
Robin HoodThe mythical Robin Hood might have ruled Sherwood, but his real-life counterparts gave him a run for his money!Since they were first told in the Middle Ages, the legendary tales of Robin Hood...
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CHRISTIAN DIOR'S NEW LOOK
Models wearing Dior's dresses in 1957How Christian Dior’s extravagant designs put the frill back into post-war fashion.Say ‘Dior’ and most people think of luxury, haute couture and leggy models...
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