The department endorses the World Health Organization’s definition of a fall: an event that results in a person coming to rest inadvertently on the ground or floor or other lower level. Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury of older Australians. Falls are a significant cause of potential harm…
In 1925, critic Franz Roh (1890–1965) coined the term Magischer Realismus (Magic Realism) to describe the work of German artists who depicted routine subjects with eerie detachment. By the 1940s and 1950s, critics and scholars were applying the label to art from a variety of traditions. Roh wrote in his…
Because of widespread fear of a strong central government at the time they were written and strong loyalties among Americans to their own state as opposed to any national government during the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation purposely kept the national government as weak as possible and the states…
The concept of Mother Nature has its roots in Greek mythology. The Goddess Gaia essentially gives birth to nature. Creating everything that exists within it and giving birth to her own husband, God of the sky, Uranus. The concept of “Mother Nature” and “Mother Earth” comes to us from ancient…
A Delaware certificate of merger, also known as the articles of merger, is a document detailing the combination of two or more business entities into one business entity. In the case of Delaware, for instance, one issue to be aware of is that certificates of merger may be filed instead…
1604 Charles Gibbon is perhaps the first author to explicitly call “Do unto others” the golden rule. – Dangerous Intersection Who first invented the golden rule? Answer: Not Jesus. This post is dedicated to the many people who have claimed to me, without any evidence or research, that the Golden…
Ancient Egyptians were the first to note the disease more than 3,500 years ago. The condition was described fairly accurately in both Edwin Smith and George Ebers papyri. One of the descriptions refers to bulging tumors of the breast that has no cure. Breast cancer is a common disease in…
In 1793, Dr. Rush would become very well known as one of the many doctors who mistakenly believed blacks were immune to yellow fever. Based on this belief, the mayor of Philadelphia called upon the Free African Society to organize nurses who could care for the sick and bury the…
The first Westerner to describe Angkor Wat was Antionio da Madalena, a Portuguese monk, in 1586 (Hingham, 2001). He wrote that the site was “impossible to describe with pen”. As the flooding destroyed the infrastructure, the city of Angkor collapsed. In 1431, it was taken by the Siamese army. Many…
The National Assembly existed from June 13, 1789 to July 9, 1789. It was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General. This Assembly called themselves the “National Assembly” since they represented at least 96% of the nation. National Assembly. National Assembly, French Assemblée…