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  1. Say No To Lousy Food

    by Ethicalll Mann - 2007-02-13
    Raised in Berkeley, California, Jose Bove returned to his native France in 1968 to study at Bordeaux University. In 1975, he became an organic farmer breeding sheep in the hills behind Montpellier, th...
  2. A Brief History of the Catapult

    by Will Kalif - 2007-02-13
    We typically think of a catapult as something that was used in the Middle Ages to destroy the walls of a castle. But catapults have a very long history dating long before the time of castles and they ...
  3. Don't Be A Dinosaur In Dancing

    by Rodney Aquino - 2007-02-10
    Whether you like it or not, life goes on. Like it or not, things change. The kind of music and the kind of band you listen to will change. Your friends will change. Your love ones will change. Technol...
  4. A Typical Day In The Life Of A Medieval Castle

    by Will Kalif - 2007-02-08
    Life in the Middle Ages could be very challenging and difficult. But there were many stretches of time when warfare was at a minimum, crops were plentiful, and castles were the homes of Lords, Ladies ...
  5. How to Fix Things in Haiti

    by Lance Winslow - 2007-02-07
    Do you really want to fix the troubles in Haiti? Are you serious this time? Well if so then you need to totally rethink the entire situation. First you must remove 80 to 90 percent of the population a...
  6. A Plan for Haiti Might be Difficult to Implement, but Could Serve as a Useful Model

    by Lance Winslow - 2007-02-07
    The problems in Haiti are so disastrous that it seems hopeless at times. All the trees are gone, people are starving and the aid coming in is coming up with food shortages. Not to mention the 2007 Tro...
  7. Social Construction of Race

    by Kathy Henry - 2007-02-07
    One of the least known facts about the concept of race is that that it is a socially constructed ideology. Race and subsequent racism was created by White Europeans and Americans in order to justify t...
  8. Jatinga Phenomenon: Do Birds Really Commit Suicide?

    by Pallavi Borgohain - 2007-02-04
    Birds and suicide! The two words do not go together. Birds are one of the most magnificent creations of God. But these splendid creations of God sometimes behave unnaturally. Why do birds commit suici...
  9. The Fascinating Ceremony of Medieval Knighthood

    by Will Kalif - 2007-01-30
    Becoming a knight was much more than a tap on the shoulder with the flat edge of a sword. It was often an involved process that spanned several days. Here is an overview of a typical knighting ceremon...
  10. Atlantis Found?

    by Lindsey Williams - 2007-01-29
    Location of Atlantis - capital of an ancient civilization said to have been destroyed by a monstrous volcanic eruption thousands of years ago - may have been substantiated by a group of Charlotte Cou...
  11. Utopian Societies Discussed

    by Lance Winslow - 2007-01-29
    As the operator of an Online Think Tank often I get to interview the creative geniuses of the world and really dig deep into a better understanding of their world and find insight into our own. One of...
  12. Sago Mine Disaster

    by Betty Dotson-Lewis - 2007-01-29
    On January 2, 2006 Sago Mine in Upshur County, West Virginia, exploded, killing 12 good men and critically injuring Randal McCloy. This was the worst coal mining disaster in West Virginia in years.It ...
  13. Music of the British Virgin Islands: Fungi

    by Dexter Penn - 2007-01-29
    Fungi is the name given to the local musical form of the British Virgin Islands. Fungi music is an expression of British Virgin Islands culture as it shows the island's African and the European influe...
  14. Mohammad Yunus And The New Revolutionaries

    by Michael Skye - 2007-01-26
    In 1974, I found it difficult to teach elegant theories of economics in the university classroom, in the backdrop of a terrible famine in Bangladesh. Suddenly, I felt the emptiness of those theories i...
  15. Sir Petrie the Original Indiana Jones?

    by Barbara Snyder - 2007-01-24
    The exhibit of "Excavating Egypt" will be presented at the Flint Institute in Flint, Michigan through January, 2007. The show will display over 200 of the most important finds of archaeologist Sir Wil...
  16. The Fable of: Big-chest-Chapter #6 The Ice Sheet

    by Dennis Siluk - 2007-01-24
    Chapter SixThe Ice SheetMoreover, everyone seemed to have their place: some were designated as hunters, others as fisher-people, and still others, such as the women would clean up the campsites, caves...
  17. Great African Civilizations

    by Kathy Henry - 2007-01-23
    There have been many misconceptions about the lives of Africans before the advent of European and American colonization. According to some historians, Africans were nothing more than savages whose on...
  18. Russian's Bellyache: A One Way Street (Star Wars)

    by Dennis Siluk - 2007-01-23
    Russian's Bellyache: A one way StreetIt's a two way highway out there in the real world, yet Russia, I do believe, is still living in the old days, thinking it is a one way street. Let me explain.Russ...
  19. The Unspeakable In Pursuit Of The Uneatable

    by Michelle Duffy - 2007-01-18
    In the last few months of his life, he lived the very existence that he had feared virtually all his life. Broke, down trodden and almost destitute, the end of a the greatest living Victorian playwri...
  20. Critical Analysis of the Annulment of King Henry VIII & Katherine of Aragon

    by Kathy Henry - 2007-01-18
    Although King Henry VIII had reason to worry about the political ramifications of not having a legitimate male heir for his kingdom, he did not have legal or moral justification for annulling his marr...