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ANCIENT GHANA AND MALI - THE STAPLE COMMODITIES
Gold was in great demand in the Maghrib and in Europe to lubricate a monetary system. Salt was needed in the Sudan, where the body loses much salt through perspiration. So, the precious yellow metal...
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COUNTRIES AND THEIR CULTURE - SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE
Location and Geography. The Republic of São Tomé e Príncipe is composed of two inhabited islands with a total area of 385 square miles (996 square kilometers). São Tomé accounts for 330 square miles...
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A LÓGICA DA EMOÇÃO - REAÇÕES DE ESTRESSE
SOMATIZAÇÕES E DEPRESSÃOHá uma conexão entra ansiedade e stress, entre stress e depressão, e entre tais quadros e desequilíbrio químico orgânico, embora não necessariamente somático. Toda a mecânica...
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FOOD CHAINS AND WEBS
Food chains and food webs show how energy is transferred in an ecosystem (an area in which living things interact with each other and their environment) from one organism to another in the form of...
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A IMPORTÂNCIA DO ATO DE LER
Paulo FreireRara tem sido a vez, ao longo de tantos anos de prática pedagógica, por isso política, em que me tenho permitido a tarefa de abrir, de inaugurar ou de encerrar encontros ou...
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FUNDAMENTOS DE LA ELABORACIÓN DEL PAN
Elaborar pan requiere poco más que un par de manos, un horno y paciencia. La receta para el éxito es sencilla: tiempo y calor es todo lo que se necesita para transformar unos pocos ingredientes básicos...
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MEDIEVAL RURAL ECONOMY (TENTH AND EARLY ELEVENTH CENTURIES) - THE RICH
It is an established tradition of European historiography to concentrate on the small handful of the very powerful. There are two powerful explanations for this persistent distortion of our view of the...
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ANCIENT EXPLORERS
From the earliest times, human beings have been travelers. Prehistoric peoples traveled in search of better hunting grounds, or to escape the glaciers creeping down from the Arctic during the last Ice...
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A MÚSICA BRASILEIRA NO IMPÉRIO E NA REPÚBLICA
Com a vinda de D. João VI, chegou ao Brasil Marcos Portugal (1762-1830), considerado então o maior compositor português, e Sigismundo Neukomm (1778-1858), compositor alemão regularmente conhecido no...
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FIVE-MINUTE WINE SCHOOL
Why do we believe fermented grape juice has to be so confusing? Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s sommelier orders you to stop stressing about vintage, vineyards, or varietals, and simply enjoy wine.Wine...
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VIANDANTE DI MARE
Nonostante la nave fosse il mezzo preferito per gli spostamenti di merci e uomini, la traversata non era certo confortevole. Lunghe attese in porto per un «passaggio», cattivi odori e cibo razionato a...
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PIGS AS AN ETHNIC MARKER? YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT.
“Swine … is unclean for you. You shall not eat of their flesh or touch their carcasses.”(Deuteronomy 14:8; also Leviticus 11:7)If you're excavating in ancient Israel or thereabouts and find a lot of...
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IMAGENS DA CIDADE COLONIAL - SÉCULO XIX- RIO DE JANEIRO NO BRASIL PITORESCO
Resumo: partindo de uma reflexão sobre a memória social e sua construção no âmbito das relações entre Fotografia e História, este artigo procura analisar as “imagens” da cidade do Rio de Janeiro,...
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LE DONNE D'ETRURIA - LIBERE, MA NON TROPPO.
Già vittime degli strali moralistici dello storico Teopompo, le donne d'Etruria hanno, tuttavia, da sempre colpito I'immaginazione di antichi e moderni per la loro qualità di campionesse di libertà e...
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HISTORY OF BREAKFAST - WHEN BREAKFAST BECAME THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY
In the Middle Ages, the nation that was to give the world the full English widely skipped breakfast. Yet, by 1600, a culinary non-entity had become a key part of our daily routine. Why the change?Few...
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SURPRESAS DO CORAÇÃO - A MÚSICA DE PIXINGUINHA
“A flauta tem variações incríveis.Dá voltas de cobra.Chora.Silva.Ri, na execução maravilhosa dos seus dedos.E até os companheiros, habituados, ficam surpreendidos e sorriem, acompanhando com os corpos...
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CELEBRITÀ ERMAFRODITE
Negli anni sessanta e settanta dell'Ottocento, Katharina (nota anche come Karl) Hohmann era una celebrità, viaggiava per tutta Europa e si metteva in mostra davanti a un pubblico di curiosi affermando...
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SEVEN MYTHS ABOUT CATS
Are they really that curious and can they read your mind? Surprising new finds suggest it’s time to forget what you think you know about your feline companion.We all think we know our cats. They are...
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WHY DO WE EAT TOO MUCH?
The amount we eat will ramp up this festive season, but why are we so inclined to consume more even when we’re not celebrating? Since medieval times the festive season has been an excuse to get down...
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THE SCANDAL OF FEMALE IN THE BRITISH MINING
Images of topless women and girls working down mines caused a furore when they appeared in the British press 170 years ago.Respectable readers of the 'Morning Chronicle' and 'The Times' awoke one...
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