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

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Times Higher Education

Arts and humanities offer Hobson's choice
Times Higher Education
Some of the most startling changes were seen in arts and humanities provision for single subjects such as French and German studies. Among the sampled courses, German studies, as a single subject, was no longer available in eastern England, ...
Universities cut number of degree courses by 27%The Guardian
The tuition paradox: You pay more money, you get less choiceThe Independent
Over one in four university courses axed since 2006Insideireland.ie

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Telegraph.co.uk

New College of the Humanities guide
Telegraph.co.uk
By Louise Merry Founded in Summer 2011 with the participation and advice of 14 of the world's top academics, New College of the Humanities, (NCH), is an independent university college based in the heart of London. New College offers undergraduate ...


Balkan Ghost: Artist Marina Abramovic talks performance, presence and "Pina ...
Loyola Phoenix
Abramovic spoke as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival's winter lecture series, which attempts to bring important speakers in the humanities to Chicago. The lecture encompassed her reflections on art and her personal history as a seminal ...

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US Poet Laureate emeritus Billy Collins to visit Boston College
Boston.com
Boston College's Lowell Humanities Series—one of the University's most celebrated forums for intellectual, artistic and literary discourse—hosts a number of appearances by renowned writers and others during the academic year. The events are open to ...

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Bridging the Humanities to the Professions
Duke University
The Duke Colloquium, a university-wide initiative dedicated to bridging the humanities and the professions, brings that philosophical emphasis back in play by inviting leading scholars to meet with students in small group settings.


Arts students draw the line
Montreal Gazette
Scan the list of striking university students and you start to wonder about two different solitudes in Quebec: Humanities students and those pursuing other degrees. To date, the list of striking university associations is replete with students in the ...

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Ramon Saldivar Wins National Humanities Medal
HispanicBusiness.com
He has been at Stanford University since 1991, where he is the Hoagland Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and also a professor of English and comparative literature. In September he became the director of Stanford's Center for ...
President Obama awards medal to teacher of Chicano StudiesTucson Citizen

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Joyce Carol Oates In Hall of Fame
Town Topics
Writer Joyce Carol Oates, Princeton University's Roger S. Berlind '52 professor of the humanities and professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has been inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in recognition of her outstanding ...
Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates inducted into 2012 NJ Hall of FameExaminer.com

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Stanford Report

Obama awards arts, humanities medals
Washington Post
President Obama awarded eight National Medal of Arts and nine National Medal of Humanities on Monday. President Obama hugs actor Al Pacino before awarding him with the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Pacino was honored for his iconic ...
Two Latinos Awarded National Humanities MedalsFox News
Medals Honor HumanitiesHarvard Crimson
Obama honors achievements in arts, humanitiesThe Associated Press
Stanford Report -Expressindia.com
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The 'Journey' begins Saturday
Arab Tribune
Bryant is the director of programs for the Alabama Humanities Foundation, which, over the past decade or so, has collaborated with the Museum on Main Street organization to bring a number of traveling exhibits from the Smithsonian Institution to mostly ...

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