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

In The News:


SHSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences honors graduates at ...
Huntsville Item, TX - 7 hours ago
By Holly Green Approximately 300 students will be graduating from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences this weekend, and more than 50 were honored ...
Record number of students receiving their diplomas Huntsville Item
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Part II: The Humanities and the Washington Money Chase
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - May 15, 2008
While the sciences feast at the federal trough—looking up only to complain of deprivation—the humanities are allotted skimpy federal assistance. ...

Humanities scholars will deliver lectures, read works
University of Chicago Chronicle - May 15, 2008
By Josh Schonwald Three humanities scholars will come to campus this month to deliver annual spring lectures presented by the Division of the Humanities. ...

DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton pushes for deadline on redevelopment ...
Bizjournals.com, NC - 15 hours ago
The agencies there are the National Endowment of the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, ...

ASU fuses sustainability with art
Arizona State University, Tempe - 18 hours ago
ASU’s Institute for Humanities Research, in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has taken a different route to examine this topic by playing host to ...

Humanities dominate approved courses so far
Harvard Crimson, MA - May 14, 2008
By BONNIE J. KAVOUSSI Humanities professors are drawing up courses for the new General Education curriculum in full force, contributing nine courses to the ...

Business Briefs - Alabama Humanities Foundation names board members
The Birmingham News - al.com, AL - May 15, 2008
New board members appointed to the Alabama Humanities Foundation are David Donaldson, community relations director and vice president of Vulcan Foundation ...

Series begins
The Union Leader, NH - 8 hours ago
The first of a three-part series on minor-leaguers' pursuit of a Major League Baseball career looks at Double-A ball, where top prospects quickly separate ...
Interim dean named for NCSU college News & Observer
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Magazine to focus on humanities
NewsOK.com (subscription), OK - May 14, 2008
The first issue of a new magazine published by the Oklahoma Humanities Council will be available on newsstands and in bookstores today. ...

Putting the 'wow' in conference
SunJournal.com (subscription), ME - 3 hours ago
She has organized the 15th annual Norlands Humanities Conference to be held from 12:30 pm Thursday, June 5, through 1 pm Saturday, June 7, ...
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