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- 271: AROMTHERAPY
- ... parts play a vital role in the effectiveness of essential oils and thus the chemical synthesis of these oils has proved remarkably tricky. have always had a role stretching back to the early civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome. According to Aromatherapy Complete Guide to Plant and Flower Essences for Health and Beauty by Daniele Ryman, Aromatherapy, while relatively new to the Western World, goes back a long way. Although the ...
- 272: Alchemy
- ... indefinitely prolonging human life. Although its purposes and techniques were dubious and often illusory, alchemy was in many ways the predecessor of modern science, especially the science of chemistry. The birthplace of alchemy was ancient Egypt, where, in Alexandria, it began to flourish in the Hellenistic period; simultaneously, a school of alchemy was developing in China. The writings of some of the early Greek philosophers might be considered to contain the ...
- 273: Hypnotism Is It Magic Or Reality
- ... under heterohypnosis or autohypnosis (Goldberg 28). No one knows the exact time hypnosis developed, but it is believed that it was first used by religious leaders, witch doctors, medicine men, and shamans. People in ancient Egypt and Greece used it for healing and curing disease (Goldberg 10). One of the first known people to experiment with hypnosis was Father Gassner, a clergyman in the early 1770 s. In those days the ...
- 274: Geography Reading Project (timeline)
- ... of the castles and ministries. The castes and monasteries depending on the size and the features could take up to ten years to be built. A good comparison to the castles was the pyramids in Egypt. Those took an extreme amount of time and also took a lot of manpower the same is true when a castle is built. They take almost longer than pyramids because they are not just sealed ...
- 275: Bubonic Plague 2
- ... to the lower Volga River. By early 1347 it was in Constantinople. It hit Alexandria in the autumn of that year, and by spring 1348, a thousand people a day were dying there. In Cairo, Egypt, the count was seven times that. The disease traveled by ship as readily as by land and it was no sooner in the eastern Mediterranean than it was in the western end as well. Already ...
- 276: Dams And Resources
- ... depositing nearly 10 million tons on the floodplain and delta. Today, 98% of that sediment remains behind the dam. The result has been a drop in soil productivity and depth, among other serious changes to Egypt's floodplain agriculture. The Aswan Dam has also led to serious coastal erosion, another problem stemming from the loss of sediments in a dammed river. Another example of this problem is along the mouth of ...
- 277: Cannabis Sativa
- ... the use, sale and cultivation of hemp/marijuana in the United States. In 1968 the drug was even restricted for research. Today carrying marijuana or selling small quantities would be considered as a misdemeanor, (In Egypt a person would be put in jail for three years). Sale of large amounts of the drug could cost someone thirty years in prison. Marijuana remains the most commonly used illegal drug among the three ...
- 278: Acid Rain
- ... the Cologne Cathedral cost the Germans approximately $20 million in repairs. The Roman monuments cost the Romans about $200 million for acid rain repairs. Another famous monument effected by acid rain is the Spynx in Egypt. This guy’s nose is pretty much gone. Most importantly, acid rain affects the health of human beings. It can harm us through the atmosphere or through the soil from which our food is grown ...
- 279: Aromatherapy
- ... parts play a vital role in the effectiveness of essential oils and thus the chemical synthesis of these oils has proved remarkably tricky. have always had a role stretching back to the early civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome. According to Aromatherapy Complete Guide to Plant and Flower Essences for Health and Beauty by Daniele Ryman, Aromatherapy, while relatively new to the Western World, goes back a long way. Although the ...
- 280: T.S. Eliot
- ... overriding image of humankind as ‘hollow men’ is powerful and depressing. In the context of a spiritual journey I would liken it to a ‘wilderness experience’. Like the children of Israel who came out of Egypt, Eliot seems to be without direction or hope. While the ‘hollow men’ are not totally empty, even their stuffing is dead grass: ‘Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!’ and they are lifeless: ‘Shape without form, shade ...
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