Mustafa describes an experience of enduring cultural subordination in spite of advancing legal status in Germany, from migrant to permanent resident, and one reproduced across generations—his children and grandchildren citizens, yet still perceived as “below the Germans.” Rhetorical categories of differ...
“Or else—” said the elderly man in the corner. “Or what, sir?” I asked. “Nothing,” said he—“nothing.” There was something very strange in this man in the corner—him to whom I had spoken of Dafydd-ap-Gwilyn. “Then you are joking,” said the landlord. I asked ...
Adequate calcium is so critical that your body has evolved mechanisms to saturate your blood with calcium if there is even a perception of calcium deficit. In the presence of low calcium, parathyroid hormone is secreted that often pulls too much calcium from bones.21The downside to this as we...
On one occasion, wishing to draw them on to speak of antiquity, he began to tell about the most ancient things in our part of the world-about Phoroneus, who is called “the first man,” and about Niobe; and after the Deluge, of the survival of Deucalion and Pyrrha; and he traced t...
Daniel Rutherforddiscovered nitrogen in 1772. He was a Scottish chemist and a physician with a passion for understanding gases, and he owed his discovery to a mouse. When Rutherford placed the mouse in a sealed, enclosed space, the mouse naturally died when its air ran low. He then attempte...