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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At Mount Sinai Med School, Humanities Students Can Be Doctors, Too
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The Mount Sinai School of Medicine on the Upper East Side, however, accepts a small number of humanities students into its medical program each year. ...
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Students with Humanities Background Equally Successful in Medical School as ...Newswise (press release)
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Arts and Entertainment Calendar, updated July 30
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Emerson Center Florida Humanities Series: Frank and Lisa Thomas. Emerson Center, 1590 27th Ave., Vero Beach, 7 pm, Dec. 2. ...

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The Guiding Wisdom of the Humanities
Canada.com
The lure of secure and lucrative employment has enticed students away from the humanities, from those courses in art, literature, history, philosophy and ...


Diane Ravitch Named Fellow of The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture
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Dallas - The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture has named Diane Silvers Ravitch, Ph.D., as a Fellow of the Institute. Ravitch is an historian of ...


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Park Record
The Utah Humanities Council is accepting grant proposals in the Competitive Grant ($5000 maximum) category from nonprofit organizations and groups to ...


Leverett's Chapel teacher attends humanities institute
Kilgore News Herald
“Humanities Texas was delighted to cosponsor 'Shaping the American Republic to 1877,'” said Executive Director Michael L. Gillette. ...

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BYU scholar to occupy top post at Virginia school
Salt Lake Tribune
Madison Sowell, a 30-year Brigham Young University humanities scholar, has been named acting provost of Southern Virginia University, a private liberal arts ...


More Space, More Students for Donahue Academy's 4th Year
The Ave Herald
Dr. Guernsey said the school has hired faculty for three new positions created to accommodate the school's growth: high school humanities, which will be ...


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Could a 1.49% Raise for the NEA Ignite Political War?
Clyde Fitch Report (blog)
Buck: The National Endowment for the Arts. The National Endowment for Humanities. Subsidies for many programs — we've got to look at privatizing some ...


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Free Screening of 'Yes Men Fix the World'
Cape May County Herald
By Herald Staff CAPE MAY — Thanks to a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the Cape May Film Society is screening the film "The Yes Men ...

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