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- 501: Contrasting Apollo & Dionysus
- ... a way of praying for a good harvest or for many children. Like Osiris, he was reborn after dying, and it is believed that these festivals may be linked to ceremonies that took place in Egypt. Most Greeks worshipped both Apollo and Dionysus. This acceptance of both their existences brings about a balance of the two forces. It is interesting that the Temple to Apollo is right next to the ruins ...
- 502: Acient Mathematics
- Acient Mathematics The earliest records of advanced, organized mathematics date back to the ancient Mesopotamian country of Babylonia and to Egypt of the 3rd millennium BC. There mathematics was dominated by arithmetic, with an emphasis on measurement and calculation in geometry and with no trace of later mathematical concepts such as axioms or proofs. The earliest ...
- 503: Interpretation Of The Human Body
- ... of Egyptian life is the ka, the part of the human spirit that lives on after death. The ka needed a physical place to occupy or it would disappear. Most of the important men of Egypt paid to have their body carved out of stone. That was were the spirit would live after the man dies. They used stone because it was the strongest material they could find. Longevity was very ...
- 504: Marijuana As Medicine?
- ... in China in the 28th century BC. He prescribed it for such things as constipation, malaria, and absentmindedness. (Medical Marijuana, www.normal.com) Marijuana was also commonly used medically in, but not restricted to ancient Egypt to treat sore eyes, ancient India as an anesthetic, and ancient Greece to treat earaches and inflammation. In the 20th century the use declined due to new and better drugs, such as aspirin. In 1937 ...
- 505: Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae)
- ... interactions, have been made studying diphtheria and the diphtheria toxin. Hippocrates provided the first clinical description of diphtheria in the 4th century B.C. There are also references to the disease in ancient Syria and Egypt. In the 17th century, murderous epidemics of diphtheria swept Europe; in Spain "El garatillo" (the strangler"), in Italy and Sicily, "the gullet disease". In the 18th century, the disease reached the American colonies and reached ...
- 506: The Worlds Fight Against Microbes
- ... the New York City Health Department, using genetic fingerprinting techniques, traced back in time over 470 MRSA strains. They discovered that all of the MRSA bacteria descended from a strain that first emerged in Cairo, Egypt in 1961, and by the end of that decade the strains descendants could be found in New York, New Jersey, Dublin, Geneva, Copenhagen, London, Kampala, Ontario, Halifax, Winnipeg, and Saskatoon. Another decade later they ...
- 507: The Quest to Understand the Origins of Humans
- ... of the best examples to illustrate this is to take a look at the creation myths of the ancient Greece about the Olympic gods. This is my favorite creation story maybe because I like ancient Egypt and Greece. Olympic gods are very similar to the people; moreover they are people only with more power. Actually they are the best example to illustrate the nature of the people. They kill each other ...
- 508: 1996: A Turbulent Year for Israel
- ... the Lebanon border. But eventually both sides withdrew. As of now both sides are at a stand still while Netanyahu continues to approve housing for the Golan Heights. The increase of Jewish settlements also angered Egypt another of Israel's allies in the Arab world. The West Bank housing will, said an Egyptian official, "Destroy trust between Israel and it's Arab neighbors." Socially Israel has it's share of problems ...
- 509: Government Funding for the Arts
- ... at these things and judge us by our accomplishments in these areas. When we look back in history, we recall it through the greatest past achievements in art: the Sistine Chapel, the great pyramids of Egypt, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, and the works of Plato. Shouldn't we be able to show feats just as grand? Most Americans do agree with me. In 1992, a study called the "Americans and the ...
- 510: USSR: The Doomed Empire
- ... throughout Europe then maybe Asia would be a good place to try. Throughout the 1950's Russia aided in developing Soviet communism throughout China, Korea, Vietnam, and smaller third World Countries such as Indonesia, India, Egypt, And Syria.1 Whether by force of influence Russia tried to set Soviet Communism up and in each place the US was also there to stop them. Tensions between the US and Soviets grew and ...
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