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| A Top Story |
| 2008-07-04 11:28:00 |
By Carlos Benito CamachoMy cousin Helena was a tall, gangling girl with freckles on her skin. She and I would always play in the garden whenever she came over to spend a few days in the summer during the school vacation. It was a big garden with all kind of plants and flowers, some trees, two benches, a fountain, a small statue of a dwarf, and, under a lapacho tree, granddaddy’s grave with the wooden cross sticking up among the red acheras flowers. My older brother had told us he had once heard granddaddy’s voice whispering in his ear telling him to take off and leave him alone. And my friend Juan had also said he had heard murmuring voices in the mulberry tree as he swung on the swing. That was why we did not dare to go there at dusk, when it began to get dark.That was a long time ago...
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| Inflation |
| 2008-07-01 11:18:00 |
InflationBy Carlos B. CamachoInflation is the general rise in prices due to the spurious printing of money by a government in a vain attempt to finance a deficit created by an elephantiasic state and which can not be managed due to lack of domestic and international confidence, rendering interest rates extremely high. This increase in the volume of money, which is bigger and faster than the output of goods and services, and interest rates, is usually caused by political instability and the subsequent and constant change of the rules and not by the market. This kind of inflation is usually seen in Third World countries where there seems to be perpetual broken trust between the people and their incumbent ruler as every now and then there is a political up...
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| An Internet Story |
| 2008-06-27 14:13:00 |
A Short Story by Carlos Benito Camacho
He had just walked into the big room in which he found himself now. Closing the tall, wooden door behind him, he felt had stepped into another strange set-up in his life. He could not see clearly, as the space around him was dimly lit by red neon lights which were fixed high above on the walls. It was drizzling outside and a wood combustion smell wafted about in the room damp air. Giving his eyes time to adjust to the red gloom, he momentarily lingered there over by the door.
He could make out a bar to his right. A long-haired bartender waited on a patron, pouring a red drink in a long glass that sat on the bar top. He glanced sideways at what appeared to be a tall, burly man in a murky corner of a full-length mirror which hung horizontally on the wall behind the bartender. Wearing white mini-skirts, seven girls sat in front of him around a charcoal fire that lay low in a short-legged brazier on the floor.
It was chilly outside and that dilapid...
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| Vero Possumus... |
| 2008-06-23 18:46:00 |
Here is Barack Hussein Obama's new Latin slogan:
"Vero possumus, quoniam ego sum falsidicus muslim."
Yes, we can, because I am a lying Muslim.
Read: Obama Wants Change...
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| Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life |
| 2008-06-20 13:44:00 |
John McCain believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned, and as president he will nominate judges who understand that courts should not be in the business of legislating from the bench. Constitutional balance would be restored by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, returning the abortion question to the individual states. The difficult issue of abortion should not be decided by judicial fiat. However, the reversal of Roe v. Wade represents only one step in the long path toward ending abortion. Once the question is returned to the states, the fight for life will be one of courage and compassion - the courage of a pregnant mother to bring her child into the world and the compassion of civil society to meet her needs and those of her newborn baby. The pro-life movement has done...
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| Protecting Second Amendment Rights |
| 2008-06-20 13:20:00 |
John McCain believes that the right of law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is a fundamental, individual Constitutional right that we have a sacred duty to protect. We have a responsibility to ensure that criminals who violate the law are prosecuted to the fullest, rather than restricting the rights of law abiding citizens. Gun control is a proven failure in fighting crime. Law abiding citizens should not be asked to give up their rights because of criminals - criminals who ignore gun control laws anyway. John McCain opposes backdoor attempts to restrict Second Amendment rights by holding gun manufacturers liable for crimes committed by third parties using a firearm, and has voted to protect gun manufacturers...
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| American National Security |
| 2008-06-20 12:39:00 |
America has the most capable, best-trained and best-led military force in the world. But much needs to be done to maintain our military leadership. John McCain is committed to ensuring that the men and women of our military remain the best, most capable fighting force on Earth - and that our nation honors its promises to them for their service. As President, John McCain will strengthen the military, shore up our alliances, and ensure that the nation is capable of protecting the homeland, deterring potential military challenges, responding to any crisis that endangers American security, and prevailing in any conflict we are forced to fight. Fighting Against Violent Islamic Extremists and Terrorist Tactics The atta...
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| McCain Economic Plan |
| 2008-06-19 14:21:00 |
Americans are facing economic challenges. Gas prices are rising, mortgages are threatened, and thousands have lost their jobs. Now is the time to act and John McCain has outlined several near-term, tangible plans to address some of the challenges confronting Americans today. John McCain believes we should institute a summer gas tax holiday. Hard-working American families are suffering from higher gasoline prices. John McCain calls on Congress to suspend the 18.4 cent federal gas tax and 24.4 cent diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day. At the same time, as international demand for oil is bolstered by federal purchases for Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), John McCain will stop filling the SPR to reduce demand. The...
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| John McCain's Vision for Health Care Reform |
| 2008-06-19 11:19:00 |
The problem with health care is well known: it is too expensive and, as a result, 47 million people living in the United States lack health insurance. But John McCain believes we can and must provide access to health care for every American. He has proposed a comprehensive vision for achieving that. For too long, our nation's leaders have talked about reforming health care. Now is the time to act, for John is a man of action.John McCain believes the key to Health Care reform is to restore control to the patients themselves. We want a system of health care in which everyone can afford and acquire the treatment and...
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| Monotheism & Polytheism |
| 2008-06-18 10:16:00 |
By Carlos B. CamachoFrom the time man became a sedentary creature who organized himself around a society, culture has revolved around religions, which monopolize and channel man's fear, fear of the unkown. There have been two kinds of religions; polytheistic and monotheistic. We are taught and we generally think that the former is a rudimentary religion, whereas the latter evolved and representing the logical omnipresent "truth", making us better human beings. But, is it?The thee monotheistic religions that we know, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, originated in the Middle East; a region of patriarchal societies, ruled by tyrannic kings in ancient times. And these monotheistic, "more civilized", religions portray in their religious books a tyrannic, intolerant and only god, who punishes h...
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| Roman Gods |
| 2008-06-13 10:55:00 |
Major Roman DeitiesApollo - He is one of the most important and many-sided god in the Roman mythology. Portrayed as a beardless youth, Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek as Apulu. In Roman mythology he is known as Apollo.Bona Dea - goddess of fertility, healing, virginity, and women. Also known as Fauna.Bacchus - god of wine and sensual pleasures, not considered a Dii Consentes by the Romans.Carmenta - goddess of childbirth and prophecy, and assigned a flamen minor. The leader of the Camenae.Ceres - goddess of the harvest and...
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| Aetius & The Battle of Chalons (451 AD) |
| 2008-06-11 10:11:00 |
Flavius Aëtius was born at Durostorum, modern Bulgaria, in 396 AD. Son of an Italian mother, Aurelia, and Flavius Gaudentius, he rose to be master of the horse in the service of the Western Roman Empire. But he spent some years as a hostage, first with Alaric and the Goths, between 405–408, and later in the camp of Rugila, a king of the Huns. Aëtius's upbringing among bellicose peoples such as the Goths and the Huns gave him a martial knowledge and attitude lacking in Rome itself at that period. Certainly he learned every trick the Huns themselves utilized in battle, and he used that knowledge well in his conflicts with Attila.At the beginning Aetius opposed Valentinian III, but later made peace with Valentinian's mother, Galla Placidia, who gave him a...
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| Colosseum |
| 2008-06-10 18:14:00 |
The Colosseum was originally known as the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium). It is an elliptical amphitheatre in the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.The Roman Colosseum is found in the city centre, east of the Roman Forum and its construction was started by the emperor Vespasian in 70 AD and was ended in 80 AD by emperor Titus. Further modifications were made during Domitian's reign (81–96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name. Vespasian's decision to build the Colosseum can also be seen as a populist gesture of returning to the people an area of the city which Nero had appropriated for his own use.Originally ca...
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| Battle of Alesia |
| 2008-06-09 11:07:00 |
The Battle of Alesia took place in the French Jura or near modern Alise-Sainte-Reine in 52 Bc. Also known as the Siege of Alesia, it was fought by the army of the Roman Republic commanded by Julius Caesar, aided by cavalry commanders Mark Antony, Titus Labienus and Gaius Trebonius, against a confederation of Gallic tribes united under the leadership of Vercingetorix of the Averni, the Gauls chief. Being the last major engagement between Gauls and Romans, the battle of Alesia marked the turning point of the Gallic Wars in favour of Rome. The battle of Alesia is considered one of Caesar's greatest military achievements, and is still one of the classic examples of siege warfare and circumvallation.Julius Caesar had been in Gaul since 58 BC, and he made allia...
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| John McCain |
| 2008-06-06 10:15:00 |
John Sidney McCain III was born on August 29, 1936. He is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in the upcoming 2008 election. John McCain has a remarkable record of leadership and experience that embodies his unwavering lifetime commitment to service. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona in 1982, John has led the fight for reforming Washington, eliminating wasteful government spending, and strengthening our nation's armed forces. John McCain's reform agenda to reduce federal spending and lower taxes quickly elevated him to statewide office and he was elected to the United States Senate in 1986, after serving two terms i...
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| The Roman Legion |
| 2008-06-04 13:27:00 |
At the beginning, during the monarchy period, the Romans used the Greek phalanx as the pattern for their battle formations. When the Etruscans were expelled from power, ushering in the Roman Republic, the Latins made the first changes to the Roman Army, as the phalanx was abandoned and the early legion was developed. Three lines of soldiers were drawn up; the hastati in the front, the principes in the second row, and the triarii.The hastati were the youngest fighters.They carried body armour, a rectangular shield called scutum, which should remain the distinctive, protective equipment of the foot soldier throughout Roman history. As offensive weapons they carried a short, straight, double-edged sword called gladius, made not for slashing but for stabbing. ...
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| Scipio Africanus |
| 2008-06-02 12:27:00 |
By Carlos B. CamachoPublius Cornelius Scipio Africanus & the Battle of Zama(Scipio, Latin word which means "rod")There he was, sitting on his bay horse on a low, rocky knoll. His red cloak billowed in the dry wind as he looked out over the shrubby, desert plain. His army was there, spreading out in neat formation; 30,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry men who were well fed and hydrated as they had strategically camped around a spring.He had drawn up his infantry forces in three succeeding lines; the hastati at the front, the principes in the second line, and at the rear, the most experienced and better equipped triarii, who were the elite of the roman infantry. This time however, he had the maniples stand in separate formations, not in a continuous line, leaving loose gaps in between fille...
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| The Roman Empire |
| 2008-05-27 16:23:00 |
The Roman Empire The Roman Empire is the period of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by an autocratic form of government and large territorial gains in Europe and the Mediterranean. Usually, "Roman Empire" is the term used to describe the Roman state after the demise of the Republic and the advent of Octavian, first as a Triumvir, then as Augustus, imperator, "commander-in-chief", until the fall of the empire in 5th century AD.The Latin term Imperium Romanum (Roman Empire), probably the best-known Latin expression where the word imperium denotes a territory, indicates the part of the world under Roman rule. Roman expansion began in the days of the Republic, but reached its zenith under Emperor Trajan. Tiberius (...
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| Augustus |
| 2008-05-27 11:18:00 |
AugustusAugustus (Latin: IMPERATOR•CÆSAR•DIVI•FILIVS•AVGVSTVS, September 23, 63 BC – August 19 AD 14), born Gaius Octavius Thurinus and prior to 27 BC, known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus after adoption, was the first emperor of the Roman Empire, who ruled from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD. The young Octavius was adopted by his great uncle, Julius Caesar and came into his inheritance after Caesar's assassination in 44 BC. In 43 BC, Octavian joined forces with Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in a military dictatorship known as the Second Triumvirate. As a Triumvir, Octavian effectually ruled Rome and most of its provinces as an autocrat, seizing consular power after the deaths of the consuls Hirtius and Pansa and having himself perpetually re-elected. The Triumvirat...
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| Roman Republic |
| 2008-05-27 09:27:00 |
The Roman Republic (From res publica: "public matter") The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a republican form of government. The republican period began with the overthrow of the Monarchy and the establishment of a new government headed by Lucius Junius Brutus and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, who became the first consuls in c. 509 BC. The Republic lasted over 450 years until its subversion, through a series of civil wars, into the Principate form of government and the Imperial period. The precise event which signaled the transition of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire is a matter of interpretation. Historians have variously proposed the appointment of Julius Caesar a...
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| Julius Caesar |
| 2008-05-26 18:04:00 |
Julius CaesarJulius Caesar was born into a patrician family, the gens Julia in 100 BC. The Julius and the Marius families were connected: Marius was married to a sister of Caesar's father, Julia. So, Caesar belonged to an influential family. Caesar's formative years were a time of turmoil. The Social War was fought from 91 to 88 BC between Rome and her Italian allies over the issue of Roman citizenship, while Mithridates of Pontus threatened Rome's eastern provinces. In his youth Caesar joined the army, serving under Marcus Minucius Thermus in Asia. Aiming at rhetorical perfection, Caesar travelled to Rhodes in 75 BC to study under Apollonius Molon, who had previously taught Cicero. On the way across the Aegean Sea, Caesar was kidnapped by Cilician pirate...
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| Rome: The Crisis of the Republic |
| 2008-05-26 15:20:00 |
The Crisis of the RepublicRome had begun as a small city-state. It's constitution, its government, its social structure, and its moral values were those of a small, mainly agrarian state. All of these, the constitution, government, social structure, and values, adapted well to the governing of Italy. The Empire, however, which Rome had stumbled into by accident, provoked a profound crisis in Roman society, government, and morals. In particular, the Second Punic War created vast disparities in wealth. Up until the Second Punic War, the plebeians were farmers, craftsmen, or laborers. They would farm their own land that, even though it was small, was still their property. As laborers or craf...
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| Rome: The Conquest of Greece |
| 2008-05-26 14:20:00 |
The Conquest of the Hellenistic EmpiresWhile Rome was engaged in internal politics and the conquest of Italy, the Macedonian Greeks first conquered the Greek mainland and peninsula, and then, literally, the whole of the world. By 324 BC, when Rome still didn't control much of Italy and the city was still struggling with friction between the patricians and the plebeians, the entire world east of Rome, everything, was under the control of a single man, Alexander the Great. While there were numerous Greek cities on the Italian peninsula and while Rome was heavily influenced by Greek culture and thought, the Romans didn't seem to pay this ground-shaking development with much concern. Although the Hellenistic world fractured in pieces, nonetheless the end of the ...
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| Rome: The Punic Wars |
| 2008-05-26 13:14:00 |
CarthageThe greatest naval power of the Mediterranean in the third century BC was the North African city of Carthage near modern day Tunis. The Carthaginians were orginally Phoenicians and Carthage was a colony founded by the Phoenician capital city of Tyre in the ninth century BC; the word "Carthage" means, in Phoenician, "the New City." The Phoenicians, however, were conquered by the Assyrians in the sixth century BC, and the conquered by the Persians; an independent Phoenician state would never again appear in the Middle East. Carthage, however, remained; it was no longer a colony, but a fully functioning independent state. While the Romans were steadily increasing their control over the Italian peninsula, the Carthaginians were extending their empire over most of North Africa. By the t...
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| Rome |
| 2008-05-26 11:32:00 |
When we bring to mind the word "latin", we usually think of Latin America or its people, perhaps some even think of an illegal immingrant who has just sneaked into the United States. But if we go down to its origin, Latin was the name of one of the many Indo-European peoples that migrated to Western Europe between two thousand and one thousand years BC. So, contrary to today's mental picture, the real Latins were white, blond and blue-eyed. The Latins intermingled with another Indo-European people, the Sabines, and the Etruscans, probably related to the Phoenician, to form one people, the Roman, whose culture left indelible traces in the western civilization. Below, the history of Rome.History of RomeRoman history begins in a small village in central Italy; ...
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| Obama, The Man Whose Surname Rhymes With Osama |
| 2008-05-23 11:03:00 |
The American Democratic candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Senior, a black Muslim from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white woman from Wichita, Kansas. His parents met while both were attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, at which his father was enrolled as a foreign student. When Barack Hussein Obama, Jr, was two years old, his parents separated. After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a radical Muslim, and the family moved to Soetoro's home, Indonesia in 1967. Lolo Soetoro introduced his stepson to Islam, sending him to a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the radical teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the Western World. After finishing primary...
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| Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner |
| 2008-05-19 13:53:00 |
By Carlos B. Camacho Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is an Argentinean politician from the ruling party Front For Victory, and now the incumbent President of Argentina (2007-2011), succeeding her husband Nestor Kirchner in Office. She was born and grew up in La Plata, the capital of the Province of Buenos Aires, on February 19, 1953. She began to study Law at the National University of La Plata in the early 1970s. Her political life was very active from the very beginning as she enrolled in the Montoneros movement, the Peronist party left wing. It was during these years that she met her husband Nestor, then a young student from the Province of Santa Cruz. Later, after the arrival of Juan Domingo Peron and the election that proclaimed him President of Argentina in 1973, she was expelled, alo...
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| Success |
| 2008-04-17 13:56:00 |
By Carlos B. CamachoSuccess is not the easy life-endowed catwalk of comfortable circumstances one can walk along to show off and draw people’s attention to feed his vanity; nor is it the sneaking short cut of the warped who deceives human beings to get the things he greeds the easy way.Success is the long straight road one makes as one determinedly plows through the rugged fields of adverse circumstances in one’s search for more favorable conditions.In Argentina, the land is plagued of crooked short cuts which come up from the underworld to suck out the hope of the honest to feed the bottomless greed of the incumbent mob. And although the KK and their cohorts stylishly move along the smooth catwalk of quasi-success, someone of sharp insight can pick u...
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| The Second Amendment to the American Constitution |
| 2008-03-16 12:48:00 |
By Carlos Benito CamachoThe Supreme Court of the United States will consider the meaning of the second amendment to the American Constitution. Written more than 200 years ago, the amendment says, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."The second amendment came in a package of ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights, which states or deals with the American citizens individual rights, and it was added to the American Constitution in 1791. Since it was a time when there was no institutionalized federal army or national guard yet, with its own logistic and armory, every citizen who joined the state militia had to carry with him his own private ...
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| Life Cycle |
| 2008-02-21 10:35:00 |
By Carlos Benito CamachoA bacterium devours proteins, but a protozoan engulfs the bacterium. Later, viruses sneak in and dispatch the protozoan from the inside. Harmful bacteria attack and kill red blood cells, but white blood cells counterattack and destroy the bacteria and anything foreign that works at croosspurposes in the vertebrate’s circulatory system.The big fish eats the small fish. A crocodile gobbles up the big fish. Another reptile, a snake, bites and swallows a rat, yet the gliding eagle catches the snake with bristling talons and wolfs it down on a rugged summit rock.The deer eats the lush, thriving plants, but the lion mauls the plant-eater to death and feeds on it. Then the trustful young lion falls asleep at night near a pack of laughing hyenas, which fall upon the...
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| Top Hezbollah Terrorist Leader Is Killed in Syria |
| 2008-02-13 11:40:00 |
February 13, 2008BEIRUT, Lebanon — A top Hezbollah commander long sought by the United States for his role in terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of Americans in the 1980s, died Tuesday night in Damascus, Syria, when a bomb detonated under the vehicle he was in, Syrian officials said.No one claimed responsibility for killing the commander, Imad Mugniyah, who had been in hiding for many years and was one of the most wanted and elusive terrorists in the world.Mr. Mugniyah, 45, was suspected of planning the 1983 bombings of the American Embassy and a Marine barracks in Beirut; the hijacking of a T.W.A. jetliner in 1985; and a series of high-profile kidnappings in the 1980s, among other crimes. Israel accused him o...
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| Time |
| 2008-01-16 13:00:00 |
By Carlos Benito CamachoThe Greeks called it Chronus, the Romans Tempus. Today it is called time in English. And in modern cities every man seems to get stressed when he does not get things done on time. Man is so busy doing things to meet the deadline that he gets oblivious of the human aspect of his existence, and when he suddenly realizes it, he says, “time has gone by fast”. There is even a song that says “...as time goes by...”, but does it?It does not, for time does not exist. In fact, it has never been, onthologically speaking, as it is not a concrete being which can be touched, seen, heard, or breathed. Time is only an abstract concept created and sustained by the human mind. If time does not exist, matter does, enveloping and making us up.Matter moves in space, switching ...
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| Obama Wants Change |
| 2008-01-08 06:27:00 |
By Carlos Benito CamachoBarack Hussein Obama wants change. Well, a lot of people have already spoken of change in the history of mankind; and when these nonconformists have attempted to change this world, the changes have usually been for the worse, rather than for the better, since the changes they have tried to carry out were usually radical and against a people’s lifestyle and culture.Deep inside them, these dissenters have never been happy with themselves and never felt at home in this world. Oh, yes, they have all had a smooth, quasi-smart speech that deluded the many.Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin, convincingly spoke of changes; yet his remedies were much worse than the problems and millions of Russian peasants died of starvation. Stalin also wanted some changes and once he was in...
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| Argentine Pilots Break Silence Over World War Two |
| 2008-01-07 10:52:00 |
By David LjunggrenOTTAWA - In early October 1942, Flight Lieutenant Donald McLarty was shot down over Libya on his 199th mission of World War Two. Although he was flying for Britain's Royal Air Force, his uniform was emblazoned with an unexpected word: Argentina.Many foreigners fought for the various Allied air forces, but until now historians have largely focused on pilots from Czechoslovakia, Poland, France and Norway -- all of which were occupied by German forces.Few realize that more than 800 young men from neutral Argentina, some of them schoolboys, rushed to sign up as pilots and then made the long, dangerous trip to Europe by boat.When McLarty climbed into his Hurricane fighter-bomber for a low-level attack on a ...
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| The Human Mind, Psychoanalysis |
| 2008-01-03 08:59:00 |
By Carlos Benito CamachoAccording to the psychoanalytical theory of Sigmund Freud, the human mind is organized around three psychic entities; id, superego, and ego.The id is the primitive and Homo sapiens’s animal part which drives him towards unbridled organismic discharge and pleasure. Anatomically this would be located in the limbic system, a group of subcortical structures including the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and thalamus.The superego maneuvers partly in the unconscious and represents the internalized values of society and parental conscience. Those moral teachings which man learns so early and slowly that he becomes unaware of how he learns them. Although the superego is largely unconscious, man feels its impact through the guilt and p...
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| Santiago Ramon y Cajal |
| 2007-12-29 08:04:00 |
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (May 1, 1852 – October 17, 1934) was a Spanish histologist, physician, and Nobel laureate. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern neuroscience.The son of Justo Ramón and Antonia Cajal, Ramón y Cajal was born of Aragonese parents in Petilla de Aragón, a Navarrese enclave in Aragon, Spain. As a child he was transferred between many different schools because of his poor behaviour and anti-authoritarian attitude. An extreme example of his precociousness and rebelliousness is his imprisonment at the age of eleven for destroying the town gate with a homemade cannon. He was an avid painter, artist, and gymnast. He worked for a time as a shoemaker and barber, and was well known for his pugnacious attitude.Ramón y Cajal attended the medical school of Zar...
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| Neuron, a Nerve Cell |
| 2007-12-28 18:56:00 |
By Carlos B. CamachoA neuron is one of the billions of specialized cells which make up the nervous system. A neuron sends and receives electrical signals through its protoplasmatic processes, or limbs, that spring out from the cell body. The short, tree-like limb that branches out is called dendrite and receives electrical impulses from other neurons. The long, rod-like limb which sends signals from the cell body to other nerve cells in the system is called axon. An axon can measure up to four feet in length and branches out in a root-like pattern at the end. This ramification at the end of an axon is called teledendron, which can make contact with one or several dendrites of different neurons.The point of contact, or link, is really a gap between the end o...
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| Brain Lateralization, Cerebral Specialization |
| 2007-12-28 11:18:00 |
By Carlos B. CamachoJust as there are two cerebral hemispheres, there are also two kinds of knowledge, that is to say two different ways of seeing reality.The left hemisphere, which controls the right side of the body, is analytic. It breaks down data into meaningful pieces to check the difference between one another. It is also linear, as it tends to organize these pieces into sequences. Playing an important role in the control of language, it is symbolic, too.The brain left hemisphere functions could also be regarded as passive in that its operation is reactive. This means that it can never generate from itself any process for which it does not have already memorized information. So, its thinking mode could be characterized as cause-and-effect, being con...
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| The Human Brain |
| 2007-12-22 07:14:00 |
By Carlos B. CamachoThe human brain is the biggest organ of the Central Nervous System and is divided into the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. The forebrain comprises the cerebral cortex, which is the part we commonly refer to as the brain, or brains, when we mean human intelligence, and it represents the acme of human evolution and the center of superior intellectual functions, and the Homo sapiens is the only species that has reached such high degree of development.Tightly wrapped up in a system of protective membranes called meninges, it takes up most of the cranial cavity as it is made up of 100 billion neurons (nerve cells) which are arranged in six layers of nerve cell bodies that form the cerebral cortex (the bra...
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