Cleopatra (69 -30 BC)
The last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt. Cleopatra sought to defend Egypt from the expanding Roman Empire. In doing so, she formed relationships with two of Rome’s most powerful leaders; Marc Anthony and Julius Caesar.
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hill of chemical waste beside Farmer Wu Shuliang’s rice paddy began to take shape in the 1990s. The waste was from a neighboring factory; a byproduct from making chemicals used for tanning leather. Each day for 20 years, workers dumped more of it, making the hill bigger and bigger. Last year, an estimated 300 million pounds of chemical sludge towered over Wu’s land and the river below. “Whenever it rained, our rice paddy and the river would suddenly turn bright yellow,” Wu says. “Much of my rice died. It killed everything in its path.” Continue Reading…
would expect younger, more physically active people who also smoke less to have a lower risk of developing coronary heart disease — even if they ate fast food once or twice a week. Apparently, this is not so. According to a joint study by the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health (UM) and National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, a person’s age, smoking status and level of physical activity may have less of an impact on one’s risk of developing coronary heart disease — when compared to a Western fast food diet. The joint UM-NUS study of 52,584 Singaporean Chinese men and women, aged 45 to 74, was conducted over 16 years starting in 1993. The findings were published online on 2 July 2012 by the American Heart Association.
