As of 2020, no family had used gene editing to prevent deafness. For more on the response from the Deaf community: Sarah Katz. “Why Deaf People Oppose Using Gene Editing To “Cure” Deafness.” Discover, August 11, 2020. www.
Release on 2019-08-19 | by National Geographic Kids
This bulging compendium is loaded with jaw-dropping, eye-popping, brain-bending facts and bright, bold photography!
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 0008342156
Category:
Page: 192
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This bulging compendium is loaded with jaw-dropping, eye-popping, brain-bending facts and bright, bold photography! It pairs the planet's quirkiest, wackiest facts with the coolest and strangest true stories. From amazing asteroids, killer plants, peculiar puffins and wonderful wombats, to the world's tiniest buildings, lost cities and strangest sporting heroes. Whether it's bizarre beaches, cool cable cars, floating buildings, or brilliant bugs, this new 2020 annual is filled with the wackiest facts! Features include:* Facts and stories about geography, biology, the animal kingdom, social sciences, human achievement and innovation* Infographics and fact files* Bright, bold photography and illustration* A fact-finding index
There have been cases in the Indian subcontinent and one in Glasgow where during the act of exorcism, the girls were so badly beaten that ... During the Coronavirus pandemic, 2020/2021, domestic violence against women had increased.
Author: Dr. A.H. Khan
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 9781528968591
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 309
View: 669
Written clearly, the aim of the book “Strange but True” is to highlight some points. There are many incidences that occurred in the hospitals which are of general interest to the general readers. The author is conscious that some points may be sensitive so he made it clear that the book is not meant to insult, degrade, defame or anything like this to anyone. The author believes that this world and this country (U.K.) have given him so much, which he wants to give back to the world/country for the benefit of other people. As a Muslim, the author has questioned many beliefs common among Asian Muslims, which are frequently addressed in the mosques, written in so-called Islamic literature and believed by many Muslims. In addition to his professional knowledge as a medical doctor, the author’s overall general knowledge and knowledge in sciences is of high standard. He was selected to be trained as a magistrate, went through two stages of interviews, but because of his heavy workload as a consultant in the NHS, could not complete his training. His consultant colleagues from his last hospital, the manager of that hospital and the consultants from his previous jobs in NHS, where he worked as a junior doctor, speak very highly about him.
Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History Robert N. Wiedenmann, J. Ray Fisher. Bibliography ( 257 ) and ... Accessed September 29, 2020. ... “Strange but True: Giant Asian Honeybees Were Used as a Weapon in Vietnam Conflict.
Author: Robert N. Wiedenmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197555583
Category: Science
Page: 297
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"Insects are seldom mentioned in history texts, yet they significantly shaped human history. The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on History tells the stories of just five insects, tied together by a thread originating in the Silk Roads of Asia, and how they have impacted our world. Silkworms have been farmed to produce silk for millennia, creating a history of empires and cultural exchanges; Silk Roads connected East to West, generating trade centers and transferring ideas, philosophies, and religions. The western honey bee feeds countless people, and their crop pollination is worth billions of dollars. Fleas and lice carried bacteria that caused three major plague pandemics, moved along the Silk Roads from Central Asia. Bacteria carried by insects left their ancient clues as DNA embedded in victims' teeth. Lice caused outbreaks of typhus, especially in crowded conditions such as prisons and concentration camps. Typhus aggravated the effects of the Irish potato famine, and Irish refugees took typhus to North America. Yellow fever was transported to the Americas via the trans-Atlantic slave trade, taking and devaluing the lives of millions of Africans. Slaves were brought to the Americas to reduce labor costs in the cultivation of sugarcane, which was itself transported from south Asia along the Silk Roads. Yellow fever caused panic in the United States in the 1700s and 1800s as the virus and its mosquito vector migrated from the Caribbean. Constructing the Panama Canal required defeating mosquitoes that transmitted yellow fever. The silken thread runs through and ties together these five insects and their impacts on history"--
OVER THE YEARS , IT was called “Louisville's most intriguing mystery” and its “most bizarre mystery.” The whole thing started like a real-life Agatha Christie story. Ella McDowell Rogers lived in no. 14 at the Baringer Manor Apartments.
Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9781467146784
Category: History
Page: 128
View: 520
From ghost towns to circus performers to mass hysteria, the Bluegrass State is no stranger to the strange. Read stories of famed President Abraham Lincoln you've never heard before. Find possible solutions to the mystery of Pearl Bryan's missing head and decipher the outrageous hoaxes involving an unsolvable puzzle and monkeys trained to perform farm work. Learn about the time when the author wrote to Charles Manson as a joke and Manson wrote back--four times. Join author Keven McQueen as he recounts some of the weirder vignettes from Kentucky lore.
It seems weird, but true that doing a lot of all three can make you more attractive to the average guy. A study found that women with “high-motion faces” rated as the best looking. It's likely because these moves signal that you're ...
Teeth come in all shapes and sizes, just like their animal hosts. Some teeth are sharp to grab prey and tear apart the meat. Other teeth are flat to chew plants and some animals have both kinds to eat plants and animals. And That’s the Tooth delivers unique and fun facts about animal and human teeth through engaging riddles. With hints to help solve each riddle, children will be actively involved as they giggle, guess, and learn.
This awesome book is filled with fantastic educational and entertaining random facts for smart kids with hours of exciting, enjoyable and unforgettable reading. Your child will learn about science, geography, history, nature, human health, animals, outer space and more! They will discover facts about: • Why people should not feed candy to their dogs; • Why leopards put their foods high up in trees; • An island in the Caribbean where pigs commonly swim in the sea; • Which animal fight each other using their necks; • How many times the human heart will have beaten by the time a person reaches age 70; • How much longer a person who reads books live compared to those who don’t read; • A cat who was a Mayor of a town in the USA; • An animal who has a lifespan of just 1 day; • How many trillion cells exist in the human body; • The number of years it would take to reach the sun from Earth; • Which male animal can get pregnant; • The only food in the world that does not expire or spoil; • The world’s most expensive pizza; • A popular candy that is made from crushed and boiled beetles; • What happens to dogs who drink alcohol; • Two former Presidents of the USA who died on the same day in the same year; • And so much more! Get your copy now.
Questing Through Time and Space Leslie Haas, Michelle Metzger, Jill T. Tussey ... Retrieved April 26, 2020 from https:// www.crystalinks.com/egyptart.html • D'Hooghe, A. (2000). ... Weird but true know-it-all: Ancient Egypt.
Author: Leslie Haas
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9783030803490
Category: Education
Page: 187
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This textbook provides real world examples of how disciplinary literacy can incorporate gamified learning opportunities in elementary classrooms (grades K-5 or ages 5-11). It also presents concrete examples of how to seamlessly integrate literacy within other subjects in engaging and unique ways. Furthermore, this text offers practical information related to pedagogy, content, and differentiation for each lesson. Preservice teachers, practicing teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators can benefit from this user-friendly text and its companion digital components, allowing for replication of lessons based on national standards, backed by best-practices, and supported by differentiated pedagogy. This unique volume begins with engineering marvels that span across centuries and locations. The eight chapters focus on the following marvels in chronological order: Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu, Panama Canal, Golden Gate Bridge, and International Space Station. By focusing on these specific examples of human ingenuity, opportunities are created to delve into the historical and social aspects of each chapter’s focus. There are also occasions to explore the artistic merit and the art created about and around each focus. Additional teaching opportunities lie in understanding the science, engineering, technology, and math embedded in all featured marvels. Each chapter features an adventure roadmap in the form of a narrative quest set against the chapter’s marvel that guides teachers and student players through embedded activities. Activities are designed for lower elementary school (grades K-2 or ages 5-8) and upper elementary school (grades 3-5 or ages 8-11). Instructional support for both novice and career teachers is provided through differentiation strategies, resource materials, and teaching tips.
Disaster Prevention and Management 15, 163–177. Ships Nostalgia. (2020). Port of Arica 1868 HMS Charnasilla. ... Ouzinkie, Spruce Island, Alaska Chapter 9. Strange, But True Alexander Turnbull Library. (2020). Waimangu 214 Bibliography.
Author: James Goff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197546130
Category: Science
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Every year that passes without a tsunami means that we're just that much closer to our next one. What can we do to ensure we're prepared when the next catastrophic tsunami strikes? The ferocious waves of a tsunami can travel across oceans at the speed of a jet airplane. They can kill families, destroy entire cultures, and even gut nations. To understand these beasts in our waters well enough to survive them, we must understand how they're created and learn from the past. In this book, tsunami specialists James Goff and Walter Dudley arm readers with everything they need to survive a tsunami and maybe even avoid the next one. The book takes readers on a historical journey through some of the most devastating tsunamis in human history, some of the quirky ones, and even some that may not even be what most of us think of as tsunamis. Diving into personal and scientific stories of disasters, Tsunami pulls readers into the many ways these waves can be generated, ranging from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions to explosions, landslides, and beyond. The book provides overviews of some of the great historical events - the 1755 Lisbon, 1946 Aleutian, 1960 Chile, and 2004 Indian Ocean tsunamis, but also some of the less well-known as well such as the 1958 Lituya Bay, 563 CE Lake Geneva, a 6,000 year old Papua New Guinean mystery, and even a 2.5 Million year old asteroid. This is not straight science, though. Each event is brought to life in a variety of ways through stories of survival, human folly, and echoes of past disasters etched in oral traditions and the environment. The book combines research from oceanography, biogeography, geology, history, archaeology and more, with data collected from over 400 survivor interviews. Alongside carefully selected images and the scientific measurements of these tsunamis, the book offers tales of survival, heroism, and tragic loss. Through a balanced combination of personal experience, the Earth's changing environment, tales of tragedy, and a recount of oral traditions, Tsunami allows readers to engage with a new scientific approach to these overwhelming waves. The resulting book unveils the science of disaster like never before.
A Chronicle of Medical Mysteries, Curious Remedies, and Bizarre but True Healing Folklore Nancy Butcher ... Mistakes Are an Alarming Trend,” The ABC News Web site, http://abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_000405_medicalerrors_feature.html.
Author: Nancy Butcher
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781101497333
Category: Health & Fitness
Page: 208
View: 980
Did you know that bananas can cure warts; chewing on raw ginger can relieve nausea; sniffing vanilla can help suppress your appetite; or that raw potato can soothe a burn? Healing is full of curious remedies-some based on time-honored folklore, others straight from the medical journals. Nancy Butcher has gathered together some of the most unusual natural cures that have been proven effective today, and even throws in some unbelievable and-thankfully-abandoned therapies from times past. Filled with case histories of unique illnesses, historic documentation of strange medical practices, and the author's own insightful commentary, this book explains not only how to cure headaches, sleep better, and improve your sex life, but also that people with Cotard's syndrome actually believe they are dead.
Check out Tracks 26 and 27 to hear how the overall tonality in Figures 5-20 and 5-21 is preserved, ... Bringing a Groove to Life with Dead Notes (Weird but True) You may need to enhance a simple groove rhythmically, but none of the ...
Author: Patrick Pfeiffer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781119695622
Category: Music
Page: 421
View: 125
Way more than just the bass-ics Whatever you're playing—funk, soul, rock, blues, country—the bass is the heart of the band. Bassists provide a crucial part of driving force and funky framework that other members of any and work off. From John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, to "The Pixies’' Kim Deal, to James Brown's favored bassist, Jimmy Nolan, bass players have made big names for themselves and commanded respect throughout music history. In Bass Guitar For Dummies, Patrick Pfeiffer—who coached U2's Adam Clayton, among others—is your friendly guide to laying down the low end. Starting from the beginning with what bass and accessories to buy, the book shows you everything from how to hold and position your instrument to how to read music and understand chords. You'll develop your skills step-by-step until you’re confident playing your own solos and fills. Sharpen skills with instructional audio and video Discipline your play with exercises Understand chords, scales, and octaves Care for your instrument Whether you're new to the bass or already well into the groove, Bass Guitar For Dummies gives you the thorough balance of theory and practice that distinguishes the titanic Hall of Famer from the just so-so. P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Bass Guitar For Dummies (9781118748800). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!
Forthcoming is a collection of four novellas entitled Widow of the Amputation and Other Weird Crimes (Eraserhead Press, 2020). Guffey's previous books include the journalistic memoir Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies ...
Author: Chet Williamson
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category: Fiction
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Fifteen freedom of speech-themed tales for the dark of heart. Fifteen twisted visions of consequences from some of the finest writers of the dark fantastique: Chet Williamson Elizabeth Massie Matt Hayward Jessica McHugh Richard Christian Matheson Jenny Orosel Jack Ketchum Georgia R. Buns Tom Monteleone Patricia Lee Macomber David Niall Wilson Robert Guffey Joseph Mulak Michael Picco Norman Spinrad Fifteen stories from living legends, rising stars, venerable masters and surprising newcomers, exploring our troubled past, our turbulent present, and frightening futures yet to come. Freedom of Screech. It’s not for the faint of heart.
2020. “Could Syracuse Fans Find Their Loyalty Being Tested?” The Post-Standard, August 4: B1. Babe Ruth League. 2020. ... 2020c. “MLB Contract Perks Are Strange But True.” Los Angeles Times, June 1: B7. Bazzano, Carmelo.
Author: Tim Delaney
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9781476644097
Category: Sports & Recreation
Page: 490
View: 953
This third edition takes a fresh approach to the study of sport, presenting key concepts such as socialization, race, ethnicity, gender, economics, religion, politics, deviance, violence, school sports and sportsmanship. While providing a critical examination of athletics, this text also highlights many of sports' positive features. This new edition includes significantly updated statistics, data and information along with updated popular culture references and real-world examples. Newly explored is the impact of several major world events that have left lasting effects on the sports realm, including a global pandemic (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19) and social movements like Black Lives Matter and Me Too. Another new topic is the "pay for play" movement, wherein college athletes demanded greater compensation and, at the very least, the right to profit from their own names, images and likenesses.
Golan Y. Moskowitz, Queer Jewish Sendak: A Wild Visionary in Context 2020 Devi Mays, Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern ... Berlin, and St. Petersburg 2018 Eddy Portnoy, Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories.
Author: Dina Porat
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9781503633773
Category: History
Page: 523
View: 381
The true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million Germans Nakam (Hebrew for "vengeance") tells the story of "the Avengers" (Nokmim), a group of young Holocaust survivors led by poet and resistance fighter Abba Kovner, who undertook a mission of revenge against Germany following the crimes of the Holocaust. Motivated by both the atrocities they had endured and the realization that murderous antisemitic attacks on survivors continued long after the Nazi surrender, these fifty young men and women sought retaliation at a level commensurate with the devastation caused by the Holocaust, making clear to the world that Jewish blood would no longer be shed with impunity. Had they been successful, they would have poisoned city water supplies and loaves of bread distributed to German POWs, with the aim of killing six million Germans. Kovner and his followers went to great lengths to carry out their plans, going so far as to obtain the schematics for Nuremberg's municipal water system, secure large quantities of poison, infiltrate a POW camp and the bakery that supplied it, and distribute poisoned bread to prisoners—but their plots were ultimately stymied. Most of the members of Nakam eventually returned to Israel, where for decades many of them refused to speak publicly about their roles in the group. While the Avengers' story began to come to light in the 1980s, details of the relations between the group and Zionist leadership and the motivations of its members have remained unknown. Drawing on rich archival sources and in-depth interviews with the Avengers in their later years, historian Dina Porat examines the formation of the group and the clash between the formative humanistic values held by its members and their unrealized plans for violent retribution.
... accessed: 15 May 2020]. Sharpe, G. 2001. The Final Whistle. Midfield farewells, sudden deaths, and other strange but true passings from football's history. London. Shecter, L. 1970. The jocks. New York. Simmel, G. 1958. Soziologie.
Author: Otmar Weiss
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004464711
Category: Social Science
Page: 332
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Introduction to the Sociology of Sport offers a comprehensive overview of topics, theories, definitions and results of sport sociological research and discussions. A unique approach to the social specificity of sport is outlined.
Description: Boston : BRILL, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “What do the international airports of France and Morocco, the Australian islands of Cocos and Christmas and Canada's Vancouver Island have ...
Author: Pauline Maillet
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004383500
Category: Law
Page: 312
View: 652
In Nowhere Countries: Exclusion of Non-Citizens from Rights through Extra-Territoriality at Home, Pauline Maillet proposes to render visible the mechanisms by which states make their territory disappear to prevent asylum seekers’ arrival. Using legal analysis and ethnography, this book traces how several states have created spaces deemed extra-territorial.
How the Government Took our Schools and Gave Them to Big Business Nigel Gann ... and misfits with odd skills”, policy experts and “unusual” mathematicians and computer scientists and “true wild cards” being sought to work in Number.
Author: Nigel Gann
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 9781398432727
Category: Political Science
Page: 290
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Nigel Gann explains how English schools provided by local councils and embedded in communities were grabbed by an authoritarian government and handed to billionaire business owners. Administrators and academics with knowledge and understanding built up over decades were replaced by a new ‘educational establishment’ of hedge-fund investors and political cronies. Utilising the ‘seven deadly sins’ of corporatised schools, a new ‘blob’ turned a public good into a milch cow for privately-educated politicians and their mates. Then they abandoned Europe and exploited a world-wide killer disease to corner the market in government contracts. But Gann offers a way forward. "Nigel Gann's analysis should be read by anyone who is interested in the reality of how control of our schools has become much less democratic. The account of this experienced school governor and teacher makes compulsive reading." Warwick Mansell, writer/editor of the website Education Uncovered. “The book is an excellent read . . . I recommend it to all those involved in the school system in England – you will gain new and important insights.” Chris James, Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership and Management, Department of Education, University of Bath “Nigel Gann offers an impassioned rejection of the celebrated gains of ‘academisation’ in the English education system and communicates a new vision of education, with public trust, transparency and localism at its core.” Dr Andrew Wilkins, Goldsmiths, University of London “A fascinating read into the world of education through the lens of the forced academisation of a rural primary school.” Raj Unsworth, chair of governors, special advisor to Headteachers Roundtable
Devi Mays, Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora 2020 Dalia Kandiyoti, ... Berlin, and St. Petersburg 2018 Eddy Portnoy, Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press 2017 ...
Author: Matthias B. Lehmann
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9781503632288
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 481
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A sweeping biography that opens a window onto the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Baron Maurice de Hirsch was one of the emblematic figures of the nineteenth century. Above all, he was the most influential Jewish philanthropist of his time. Today Hirsch is less well known than the Rothschilds, or his gentile counterpart Andrew Carnegie, yet he was, to his contemporaries, the very embodiment of the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Hirsch's life provides a singular entry point for understanding Jewish philanthropy and politics in the late nineteenth century, a period when, as now, private benefactors played an outsize role in shaping the collective fate of Jewish communities. Hirsch's vast fortune derived from his role in creating the first rail line linking Western Europe with the Ottoman Empire, what came to be known as the Orient Express. Socializing with the likes of the Austrian crown prince Rudolph and "Bertie," Prince of Wales, Hirsch rose to the pinnacle of European aristocratic society, but also found himself the frequent target of vicious antisemitism. This was an era when what it meant to be Jewish—and what it meant to be European—were undergoing dramatic changes. Baron Hirsch was at the center of these historic shifts. While in his time Baron Hirsch was the subject of widespread praise, enraged political commentary, and conspiracy theories alike, his legacy is often overlooked. Responding to the crisis wrought by the mass departure of Jews from the Russian Empire at the turn of the century, Hirsch established the Jewish Colonization Association, with the goal of creating a refuge for the Jews in Argentina. When Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, advertised his plan to create a Jewish state (not without inspiration from Hirsch), he still wondered whether to do so in Palestine or in Argentina—and left the question open. In The Baron, Matthias Lehmann tells the story of this remarkable figure whose life and legacy provide a key to understanding the forces that shaped modern Jewish history.
Strange But True Stories Of Early Notre Dame Lawyers Kevin Doyle O'Rear ... I wrote a story each week or so during the final weeks of the Spring 2020 semester, and continued writing occasional stories through the following academic year ...
Author: Kevin Doyle O'Rear
Publisher: Checkerboard Heart Publishing
ISBN: 9780578977959
Category: History
Page:
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What do murder, insanity, romance, and dancing have in common? All were features of the earliest days of legal education at the University of Notre Dame. These collected stories, written during the Covid-19 pandemic to maintain a sense of community - and a sense of humor - for Notre Dame Law School students, staff, and faculty, will keep you turning the pages.