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Time Person of the Century Runner-Up: Mohandas Gandhi
Essays about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was a Time Person of the Century Runner-up in 2000. Includes a story about Mahatma Gandhi's achievements, an appreciation by Nelson Mandela, a photo essay, and related links. From Time magazine. MRI Identifies Cause Of Salt Damage In Cultural Heritage
Dutch researcher Lourens Rijniers has discovered why William of Orange's grave, the monument on the Dam in Amsterdam and the Alhambra in Granada are all badly affected by salt damage. Salt can cause a lot of damage in materials with small pores, such as concrete and mortar. This is because the pressure which builds up during the formation of salt crystals causes cracks to develop in the surrounding material. Rijniers proved this with MRI scans of wet porous materials. Giving Good Headline
I was discussing press releases and headline writing recently with a technology writer friend. One thing that many first-time authors and the people they write about are blissfully unaware is that magazines and newspapers usually employ specific people, sub-editors and headline writers, to chop up any author’s glorious prose and to stick an entirely different [...] Report On H1N1 Cases In California Shows Hospitalization Can Occur At
In contrast with some common perceptions regarding 2009 influenza A (H1N1) infections, an examination of cases in California indicates that hospitalization and death can occur at all ages, and about 30 percent of hospitalized cases have been severe enough to require treatment in an intensive care unit, according to a new study. Scientists Sequence DNA Of Woolly Mammoth
A team of experts in ancient DNA from McMaster University (Canada) and genome researchers from Penn State University (USA) have obtained the first genomic sequences from a woolly mammoth, a mammal that roamed grassy plains of the Northern Hemisphere until it became extinct about 10,000 years ago. The project also involved paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History and researchers from Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. UK Has Worst Outcome For Stroke Patients In Western Europe
The UK urgently needs to reorganise stroke services to improve outcomes for patients, argues a senior doctor in the British Medical Journal. Studies have found that the UK has the worst outcome in western Europe. In one study the differences in the proportion of patients dead or dependent between the UK and eight other European countries were between 150 and 300 events per 1000 patients. What underlies this variation and why is outcome so poor in the UK? Opportunity To Usurp Reproductive Power Of Royal Throne Keeps Worker T
Termite offspring may stay in their birth colony to help their queen and king parents rather than leave to try and start their own family because their chance of inheriting the 'reproductive throne' is higher than their chance of successfully dispersing, finding a mate, and surviving to produce fertile offspring on their own. Tiffany
This site provides information about galleries "devoted to the arts of Louis C. Tiffany, one of the most versatile and talented American artists working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."It features essays and images of "Tiffany's windows, lamps, ... mosaics, blown Favrile glass vases, pottery, enamelwork, and jewelry."Also includes a bibliography and list of New York locations with works by Tiffany. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Quest for Atlantis
An overview of how the "myth of Atlantis has been incorporated in various works, primarily Greek."Includes discussions of Atlantis as represented in Plato's Timeaus and the Critias dialogues, Atlantis and Egypt, and Greek mythology and its connection to Atlantis. Includes links to related sites. From two students at Auburn University in Alabama. McKinley Assassination Ink: A Documentary History of William McKinley'
This site "offer[s] readers the largest possible selection of full-text primary source documents relating to the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley and the immediate aftermath of that event, including the succession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency and the incarceration, trial, and execution of assassin Leon Czolgosz."Documents date from the 1890s through 1910s. Also includes a bibliography and links to related sites. Edited and maintained by librarians C.A. Gable and S.N. Huthmacher.
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