There are 12 gods who, according to mythology, were born at the beginning of time. They were the ancestors of future Olympian gods (like Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo…) and also of mortals themselves. The titans were born from the union between…
A violent crash, on the seventh lap of the San Marino GP, in Italy, in 1994, claimed the life of the three-time F-1 world champion. It was the third stage of a season that did not go well for Senna.…
Currently (May 2018) there are 22 types of drugs indicated to inhibit the advance of the HIV virus on the CD4 cells of the immune system. Are they: Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors – Abacavir (ABC), Didanosine (ddI), Lamivudine (3TC), Tenofovir…
To ask for protection, ward off enemies, achieve love or financial and professional success. Voodoo is much more than a doll with pins stuck in it. It is a religious practice, in which followers come into contact with the spiritual…
The slave ship – or “tumbeiro” – was the type of freighter used to bring over 11 million Africans to be enslaved in America. On caravels or steamboats, Europeans, Americans and even blacks engaged in the “infamous trade”. The trafficked…
Every crab is actually a crab too. The explanation is simple: siri is just a popular name given to members of the Portunidae, one of several families of crabs. Both belong to a larger group of crustaceans, the decapods, which,…
Because the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays encourage skin cells to divide, while the heat causes them to dry out and die. Thus, a thicker layer of dead cells is formed that ends up peeling off. “The sun just speeds up…
It is the community of Kibera, in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, with about 2.5 million inhabitants. As in every favela, sanitation, housing and infrastructure conditions are extremely precarious. According to the definition of the United Nations (UN), favela is…
Peru has exotic (and trendy) foods, wild llamas and… Chinese! Cornfield Forget our yellow and always the same cob. Nowhere in the world has as many varieties of corn as Peru. There are more than 50: red, purple, piebald, small…
10. Nabonidus When did you live – 6th century BC where reigned – Babylon Nabonidus took the powerful civilization of Babylon, which had its peak between the 18th and 6th centuries BC, to the bottom of the well. Strange, he…