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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

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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Obama rend hommage à Bob Dylan et Clint Eastwood
WebDetente
Le 25 février, le président américain Barack Obama a personnellement remis, au nom de son peuple, les Arts and Humanities Awards, équivalent américain de la ...

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Homo Numericus
Digital communities and scholarly collaboration (P. Spence, CCH ...
Homo Numericus
Le CCH correspond à un modèle de « digital humanities » dont la reconnaissance en Angleterre est aussi problématique qu'en France. L'idée la plus importante ...

Mémoires du livre
Fabula
... in the social sciences and humanities is adapting to technological change, and taking advantage of the new means of transmitting and circulating ideas. ...

Scalpel, stethoscope, Tolstoy: Doctors embrace literature as tool ...
Los Angeles Times
Humanities courses are now required in many medical schools. "The humanities can remind them that they're dealing with very complicated, whole individuals ...
Book Clubs for Doctors Show Human Side of MedicineABC News
Doctors, Nurses Find Insight In LiteratureKWTX

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Idaho Humanities Council awards 32 grants
IdahoStatesman.com
By Anna Webb - awebb@idahostatesman.com The Idaho Humanities Council, the non-profit, state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, ...

TIP/MOUNT HOREB BANDS TO INVADE HUMANITIES BUILDING
Media Newswire (press release)
The first band bus arrives at the Mosse Humanities Building, 455 N. Park St., at 8 am, with the second wave of buses arriving at 9:05 am The clinics ...

Christian Science Monitor
The Marketplace of Ideas
Christian Science Monitor
These include the trend of “interdisciplinarity,” the ubiquitous center-left politics of faculty, the identity crisis of the humanities, ...

Patsy West to speak at Emerson Center on April 8
Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription)
West is a seasoned presenter with the Humanities Speakers Bureau and has published numerous pieces on the Seminoles through the University Press of Florida. ...

EMCC Instructor Receives Humanities Award
WTOK
East Mississippi Community College history instructor Kelly Elizabeth Cantrell of Columbus has been honored with a Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher ...

Un film, comment l'entendre ?
Calenda
... both for sound designers and Humanities scholars who are equally concerned with the role of sound in daily life and in artistic creation? ...

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