American President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was killed during the performance of a play at the Ford Theater in Washington by actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865). On the night of April 15, 1865, Booth starred in the scene that made him…
Krokodil, angel dust, flakka, meow meow, NBOMe… A new wave of psychoactive substances produced in clandestine laboratories has caused concern around the world. Consumed mainly by young people, they are synthetic drugs that reproduce the effects of marijuana, cocaine and…
ILLUSTRATES Rafael Sarmento READER’S QUESTION Tatiele Praia da Silva, Boa Vista, RR 1.Julius Caesar (100 BC-44 BC) came to power in Rome in 46 BC after a civil war against conservative nobles. The officers who accompanied him in this battle…
It was a mining phenomenon that occurred in Pará between 1980 and 1992. It all started when a gold nugget was found on the Três Barras farm at the end of 1979 (there is controversy over the date), attracting over…
Presuntado is a kind of second-rate ham: it has less meat and more fat. Both are made with pork meat, but the Ministry of Agriculture rules that regulate the manufacture of cold cuts are much stricter for ham than for…
ENGLAND It is a country whose capital is London. Throughout history, England managed to impose itself politically on some neighboring countries and came to control a state called the United Kingdom (see below). In the 19th century, with England at…
Although they look alike, there are several physical differences between them. Perhaps the most visible is the size: while the leopard is more muscular, the cheetah is slender. In the table beside, we explain the main distinctions between them, but…
– (Alexandre Camanho/) 1) NAVIGATOR THOMAS CAVENDISH’S GOLD CHESTS What is it Between 1586 and 1588, the British navigator Thomas Cavendish (1560-1592) traveled around the world, passing through Peru and China. On the way, he looted what he could, including…
No, as long as the phlegm is yours. It’s just that someone else’s phlegm (as well as other human fluids, like pus and semen) carries viruses and other microorganisms that can cause disease if they survive stomach acid and pancreatic…
It would have been a war of the city of Troy, in the current territory of Turkey, against several city-states of Greece, in some period between the years of 1500 and 1200 BC “It would have” because the history of…