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Economic crisis, bank failures and plague in the Middle Ages.

A.D. 1200 has been called the golden age, as characterized by a booming economy combined with widespread...

Plague and Vampirism in the Middle Ages

In A. D. 1300 in Poland, more precisely in the region of Kashubia, was coined the term "nachzehrer"...

"The Miroir Des Simples âmes" Marguerite La Porete

"The miroir des simples âmes" Marguerite la PoreteThe first of June 1310, in Paris, the heart...

Biological Weapons

The Geneva Protocol was ratified the 17 June 1925, banned the use of biological weapons but Japan...

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Prof. Camillo Di Cicco - University of Rome/Medicine, 110 e lode, M.D., University of Rome 'La Sapienza',1975. Dermatologist, 70 e lode. M.D., University of Rome 'La Sapienza, 1978

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At M.I.T. the philosopher, critic and essayist Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University, in a talk based on his paper, "Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction", draws freely on such predecessors as Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger and Nietzsche to draw a bead on fundamentalism. 

War Poisons

War Poisons

Apr 09 2010 | comment(s)


The Military laboratories are constantly seeking new poisons with special attention to the world's animal and plant, biological toxins.
Examples: Snakes as the cobra, the fish Arothron hispidus Arothron meleagris or, like frogs Phyllobates aurotaenia, or TARIC Toros, shellfish such as Mytilis californianus, or Conus magus.
CHLORACNE

CHLORACNE

Apr 07 2010 | comment(s)

Chloracne is a skin condition caused by over-exposure to certain toxic chemicals that looks like common forms of acne that affect teenagers.

First reported in German industrial workers in 1897, at present chloracne is the only well established long-term effect of exposure to TCDD or dioxin, the contaminant found in one of the ingredients of Agent Orange.

At Seveso Italy, from a reactor to the production of hexachlorophene, a product relatively harmless used by industry, cosmetics, it would be escaping, because of an accident, dioxin, a chemical highly toxic and carcinogenic.
Prosopagnosia or prosopagnosia, is a perceptual deficit acquired or congenital central nervous system that prevents individuals who are affected to properly recognize people's faces, it is determined by a damaged area of the brain to the task, turn fusiform.

It was studied thoroughly in the eighteenth century by several scientists, including John Hughlings Jackson and Jean Martin Charcot. 



Ignacio Ellacuria wrote,"with Mons. Romero God is past for El Salvador".

EBOLA

EBOLA

Mar 19 2010 | comment(s)

EBOLA - CLINICAL SYMPTOMS: 

Ebola was discovered in 1976 in Zaire and Sudan. 


The virus called Ebola takes its name from the Ebola River, which flows into Zaire, where the virus was isolated for the first time.