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- 9801: The Greek-Trojan War in The Iliad
- ... Trojan War in The Iliad is not only a War between human characters, but it is also a battle between divine characters. While the Olympians' immortality separates them from man and leaves them free from death and suffering, there power brings them closer to humans because it is constantly being used to either aid or hamper mans progress. These gods are central to the poem because they are actually responsible for ...
- 9802: Mythology: Dionysus And Semele
- ... crown and put it among the stars. His mother, Semele, whom he had never seen, was not forgotten. He longed for her so much that he went to the lower world, defied the power of Death and brought her to live on Olympus. Even though she was a mortal, the gods accepted her as one of themselves since she gave birth to a god. The Maenads, or the Bacchantes, were women ...
- 9803: Normadic Herding-Sami
- ... 000, in Finland 6,000 and in Russia 2,000. In Finland the birth-rate amongst Sami is slightly above the average for the country in general, while there are no marked differences in the death-rate. At the same time, the average size of family is very much higher in the case of Sami, 5,7 persons as compared for 3,8 for the Finns, partly as a consequence of ...
- 9804: The End of the World
- ... every crop of millennialists has been disappointed" 300 years ago, Nostradamas predicted all of the popes, correctly up until the year 2000. According to Nostradamas we only have 4 popes left until "A horrible fiery death to all humankind"© Further more he predicted the southern California' 92 earthquake, 300 years ago!!. Many people believe that the world will end in the form of world war III. Imagine if another Hitler came ...
- 9805: Standardization of the English Language
- ... that English became the language of legal documents in place of Latin. The formal rules intended to keep the use of French in official capacities were not enough to combat the effects of the Black Death and the Hundred Years War between France and England, which both contributed greatly to the rise of English and fall of French. By the fourteenth century, English was again known by most people, although French ...
- 9806: Chemical Warfare and Its Uses
- ... hydrogen cyanide was used by Iraq in the war against Iran and against the Kurds in northern Iraq during the 1980's. Hydrogen cyanide has high toxicity and in sufficient concentrations it rapidly leads to death. During the Second World War, a form of hydrogen cyanide (Zyklon B) was used in the Nazi gas chambers. Symptoms of cyanide poisoning vary and depend on, for example, route of poisoning, total dose and ...
- 9807: Mummies and Embalming
- Mummies and Embalming In Ancient Egypt when a person died his body was embalmed and made into a mummy. The ancient Egyptians believed that a person's spirit and soul continued to live after death and that it returned to its tomb to visit. For this reason it was very important to save the body in as good shape as possible. Mummies have been known to last for thousand of ...
- 9808: Comparison Between Greek And Islamic Mythology
- ... were the sons or daughters of those gods and goddesses. Greek mythology has plenty of gods, such as god of thunder, god of sky, god of water, or even god of life and god of death. But Greek mythology has a lot of story which includes wars between the gods and goddesses and the love between gods and goddesses or even taking over or defeating gods and goddesses. Another thing that ...
- 9809: Chemical and Biological Weapons
- ... because of a directly toxic effect upon humans, animals, or plants. Biological weapons are living organisms, whatever their nature, or the materials that are created because of their use. Biological weapons can cause disease or death in living organisms, and are depended upon for their further ability to multiply inside the organism that it attacks. Even though the two weapons are closely related, chemical weapons are used far more commonly because ...
- 9810: The Running of the Bulls
- ... bulls throughout the narrow streets of the Pamplona old quarter is an explosion of sounds, images, and sensations which are unique for the spectator and impossible to forget for those who run. The "three minute death game" has been in Pamplona since the later part of the 14th century. Although the form might be a little bit different than what it used to be, the bulls have been "escorted" into the ...
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