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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Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal

MacPhail Center CEO to depart for Humanities Center
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
David O'Fallon, the CEO of the MacPhail Center for Music, is leaving that organization at the end of October in order to join Minnesota Humanities Center as ...
Minnesota Humanities Center Names David O'Fallon Its New PresidentDigitalJournal.com (press release)

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Boston College Chronicle

Massachusetts Governor to Launch Fall Humanities Series
Boston College Chronicle
13 at 7 pm in Robsham Theater, in the first of this fall's Lowell Lectures Humanities Series events. Other Humanities Series events this semester include ...


CBC.ca

Japanese stem cell researcher wins Balzan prize
The Associated Press
The prize to Shinya Yamanaka is one of four — two for sciences, two in humanities — announced Monday. Brazilian mathematician Jacob Palis was cited for ...
2010 Balzan Prize winners announced in MilanEurekAlert (press release)
4 Academics to Receive Balzan Prizes for 2010Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
Stem cell pioneer Yamanaka awarded Balzan PrizeistockAnalyst.com (press release)

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Deadline nearing to apply for Idaho Humanities Council grants
IdahoStatesman.com
Teacher Incentive Grants are limited to $1000, and are awarded to K-12 teachers to enhance the way they teach the humanities in the classroom. ...


SC panel awards 3 for involvement in humanities
Lake Wylie Pilot
AP The South Carolina Humanities Council has chosen a college president, an author and a museum director as winners of its annual Governor's Awards. ...

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The impact of a mosque in Yuba City
San Francisco Chronicle
-- In the middle of all the debate about the proposed Islamic Center near ground zero, the latest newsletter of the California Council for the Humanities ...

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Humanities Education
New York Times
Besides the sheer intellectual and aesthetic pleasure that can be derived from the humanities, they also provide the knowledge and wisdom by which we in the ...


UA News (press release)

Humanities Seminars Offer Lifelong Learning
UA News (press release)
The series of courses, part of the UA's Humanities Seminars program, will center on heroic poetry, French art, social movements and other happenings. ...


Mars Hill College to present 'O Brother, What Next?' Sept. 13
Asheville Citizen-Times
The Road Scholars speakers bureau, a program of the North Carolina Humanities Council, is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities “We the ...

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Illinois filmmakers receive grant
Quad City Times
Moline documentary filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle have received a $12000 grant from Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities to ...

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