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Fresco Painting
March 12, 2013
Fresco is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the pigment and, with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part
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Death From Laughter
March 7, 2013
Death from laughter refers to a rare instance of death, usually resulting from cardiac arrest or asphyxiation, caused by a fit of laughter. Instances of death by laughter have been recorded from Ancient Greece to
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A Brief History of the Potato
March 11, 2013
The potato was first domesticated in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia between the 8000 and 5000 BCE. It has since spread around the world and become a staple crop in
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The Last Living Survivor of Hitler’s Bunker
March 7, 2013
Rochus Misch (born 29 July 1917 in Alt Schalkowitz near Oppeln, Upper Silesia) is a former German senior squad leader in the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during World War II. He served
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The ‘Bocca Della Verità’ in Rome
March 12, 2013
La Bocca della Verità, The Mouth of Truth in English, is an image, carved from Pavonazzo marble, of a man-like face, located in the portico of the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome,
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The Little Medieval Ice Age
March 11, 2013
The Little Ice Age was a period of cooling after a warmer era that is known as the Medieval Warm Period. Climatologists and historians find it difficult to agree on either the start or end
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