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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Can the Humanities Survive the 21st Century?
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
I came away with the suspicion, one that I still hold today, that humanists all too often use "the humanities" and "the university" as equivalent terms. ...


PCN adds culture series
Pittsburgh Post Gazette (blog)
Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) will air 12 episodes of a new series called "Humanities on the Road" at 6 pm Friday begining this week. ...


Revitalizing the Humanities in Africa, Cultivating New Scholars is Aim of ...
Stock Markets Review (press release)
Managed by the American Council of Learned Societies ( ACLS ), the African Humanities Program responds to Africa's critical shortage of qualified academic ...


Cell phones, multipurpose data jacks are slowly replacing old phone lines at IU
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He noted that it's a myth that the sciences place more demands on Internet and other technological services than the humanities. "The sciences have their ...

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Arts and Entertainment Calendar, updated Sept. 3
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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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Decision Makers: Elizabeth Musselman of Theatre IV and Barksdale Theatre
Richmond Times Dispatch
For his perseverance, strength, belief in humanities' best qualities, and his ability to move forward -- without cynicism -- after his suffering."


The Humanities for Love, Not Money
New York Times
Daniel Shannon of the University of Chicago said he believed age brought a greater appreciation of the arts and humanities. A promotion for continuing ...


Belmont Cultural Council Seeks Funding Proposals
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... schools and individuals to apply for state-funded grants to support arts, humanities, and science projects, performances and events in our town. ...
Hopkinton Cultural Council accepting grant applicationsMetroWest Daily News

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Eugenia Parker's Climbing the Family Tree column
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In 2001 – 2002, Matte served as the National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar in Residence for Baldwin County High School. In 1997, she researched and ...


Former state sen. named for award
North Platte Telegraph
The Nebraska Humanities Council has announced that former state senator and North Platte resident ...

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The inexplicable bothers me. It always has. You know, the... Read More

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They walk among us. By the mid nineties, science had... Read More

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Queen Mary I of England was born in 1516 to... Read More

OM to Ogham

Plato observed that the advent of an alphabet making writing... Read More