The History of Body Piercings - Ancient and Fascinating Around the World

Body piercings have seen a resurgence of interest in the last ten to twenty years and are becoming more and more a part of the mainstream Western culture. Take a look at any fashion or entertainment magazine and you'll see plenty of well-known celebrities with body piercings like navel rings... Read More

How to Make Your Civil War Uniform Shirt

Your own shirt designed and made by you for your own Civil War Uniform Impression is easy and economical. Follow these simple directions, and your Civil War uniform shirt will be exactly how you want it.Take all of your girth measurements.Using a tape measure, measure your chest, stomach and note... Read More

Top 10 Questions about Body Piercing

Body piercing has grown so much in popularity in recent years that it has become almost mainstream, with more and more people sporting navel rings and multiple ear rings. Facial piercings, surface piercings and lots of others to choose from can make things confusing. If you don't know what to... Read More

How I lost A million Dollars In A Bank Robbery

The Million dollars was my life-savings earmarked for prime the pump money for my biotech start-up. I am the Gerald Armstrong the owner of Gen Cells Cures?Gen Cells Cures is focused on private medical research for the individual. Searching for cures for incurable diseases and aging. Of course, with the... Read More

The Crisis of Human Survival

Environmental Pollution1. Damage to The Ozone Layer Causes Radiation PollutionThe hole in the ozone layer above the North Pole is becoming larger, allowing large volumes of ultraviolet radiation to fall directly on the Earth's surface, causing destruction and harm to humanity, and resulting in skin cancer and other bodily ailments.... Read More

African Masks

The following is a general over view of African Masks.There are still places in Africa where genuine old masks can be bought, generally through dealers. Also watch out for fakes as they do abound. Remember buy things you like as investment can go up as well as down. If you... Read More

Tribal Masks

Original Tribal masks are often seen by unknowing eyes as art objects in themselves. That is not the case, unless of course they are modern copies. A tribal mask has embued power and is alive during the ceremony for which it is used. An African visitor to a London museum... Read More

The Masked Fool

The FoolMy first direct experience of the fool in masking was watching Morris Dancing here at home in Yorkshire, England. The Morris dancers were dressed up in their usual dancing shoes with bells and baggy pants. To be absolutely honest I have always found Morris men a bit funny! Perhaps... Read More

The Contingencies of Despair: How Existentialists Survive

~ Dread is dizziness unto freedom-freedom that gazes down into its own possibility. In this dizziness freedom succumbs. ~An individual awakes as he usually does, uses the bathroom and brushes his teeth as he usually does, and goes to the kitchen for his usual bowl of Slurpy O's cereal. But... Read More

Violence

Flashes of memory stream into my consciousness. They take me back thirty years plus. I was a boy then, a newcomer to a poor and tough neighborhood. My parents, of moderate means and daring to a fault, had decided to move there after my father had accepted an editing job... Read More

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Japanese stem cell researcher wins Balzan prize
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The prize to Shinya Yamanaka is one of four — two for sciences, two in humanities — announced Monday. Brazilian mathematician Jacob Palis was cited for ...
Japanese stem cell researcher wins Balzan prizeThe State

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Humanities Education
New York Times
Besides the sheer intellectual and aesthetic pleasure that can be derived from the humanities, they also provide the knowledge and wisdom by which we in the ...


Budding docs may get a jab of arts
Times of India
"Humanities and ethics could soon be part of the national MBBS curriculum," said Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, member of the MCI's board of governors. ...

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Can the Humanities Survive the 21st Century?
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
I came away with the suspicion, one that I still hold today, that humanists all too often use "the humanities" and "the university" as equivalent terms. ...


[Letters] For sustainable growth of children
JoongAng Daily
First, education on humanities is urgent. Humanities includes both fundamental learning and basic study. It is a study needed for humans to live a humane ...


Metro Brief: Warren St. John to read, sign at Montgomery College this month
Howard University The District Chronicles
In partnership with The Maryland Humanities Council, The Paul Peck Humanities Institute of Montgomery College will sponsor a talk by author Warren St. John ...


PCN adds culture series
Pittsburgh Post Gazette (blog)
Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) will air 12 episodes of a new series called "Humanities on the Road" at 6 pm Friday begining this week. ...


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During visiting the supreme leader
Iran Book News Agency
Issues as latest medical achievements, the problems of the economy system, the difficulties of humanities field as well as the stance of books in Iran's ...
Iran - Print Supreme Leader Meets AcademicsISRIA (registration)
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Puttin' on the Hits lip sync contest approaching
Winfield Daily Courier Online
Tickets are $2 and may be purchased in the Humanities Office inside the Brown Center or at the door. Sixteen acts will have three minutes apiece to entice ...


Cell phones, multipurpose data jacks are slowly replacing old phone lines at IU
TMCnet
He noted that it's a myth that the sciences place more demands on Internet and other technological services than the humanities. "The sciences have their ...

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Between 603 and 702 AD. a truly marvelous temple was... Read More

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Collecting art can be one of the most enjoyable ways... Read More