ILLUSTRATES Doug FirminoEDITION Felipe van Deursen – (Doug Firmino/Strange World) CRIMINAL RECORDName – yang Xinhai (1968-2004)Location – East ChinaDeaths – 67 1. Youngest of four brothers from a simple family, yang was born and raised in a poor village in…
Mythology and folklore are filled with stories about the supernatural properties of the reflection, providing some clues to the origin of this superstition. The most famous example is the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus, who fell in love with his…
»> The phenomenon is caused by the vibration of some tissues through which the air passes when we breathe. The most frequent noise is caused by the passage of air in the soft part of the palate (roof of the…
Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo was the owner of a journalistic empire in Brazil. Born in Umbuzeiro, Paraíba, in 1892, he can be defined as a journalist, lawyer, businessman and politician, but he is mainly remembered for having…
A research coordinated by the Catholic Church with documents produced by the military identified more than one hundred tortures used in the “years of lead” (1964-1985). This trunk of cruelty, which included electric shocks, drowning and a lot of beatings,…
(/) ILLUSTRATES Zé Otávio who thinks of palmistry (the art of reading palms) imagine a gypsy. But the origin is much more remote: the practice began more than 4,000 years ago, according to manuscripts found in Egypt, India and China.…
Why don’t old bald men have wrinkles on their heads? Jonas Michelon, Ijuí, RS Because of less flaccidity and lack of contraction of the scalp musculature. “With baldness, there is atrophy and retraction of the skin tissue of the scalp,…
It can be said that two cities compete for this unfortunate title: the small Juruena, in Mato Grosso, and Serra, one of the largest municipalities in Espírito Santo. In pure and simple statistics, Juruena would be the most violent: she…
»> This is the name given to persuasion messages made to be perceived only in the subconscious. The first experiment of the kind was carried out in 1956, in New Jersey, in the United States, by publicist Jim Vicary. During…
O vitiligo It is a disease characterized by white spots on the skin and mucous membranes. They arise after the disappearance of cells called melanocytes, which produce melanin (substance that gives ′′ color ′′ to our skin). In fact, some…