Fajardo Aceves Jesus Manuel, from Mexico, has congenital hypertrichosis. TAO-CHUAN/YEH/AFP/ Getty Images Fajardo Aceves Jesus Manuel, from Mexico, has congenital hypertrichosis. Most people have heard of the witch hunts of the 16th century. Less well-known are the werewolf hunts that happened...
Expatriate adjustment, which refers to how individuals adapt to living and working abroad, is vital for their job performance and satisfaction. Many studies, however, neglect the historical context between an expatriate's home and host countries, such as colonial ties (historical connections where one...
Many LGBT Jews feel they must choose between their Jewish and sexual identities, since some Jewish institutions, particularly the more traditional and Orthodox, reject the viability of an LGBT lifestyle. Even when they join an inclusive Jewish group, conflicting elements in their identity...
Whether you are an employee or a small business owner, it can be helpful to calculate the number of working days in a year. Most people are familiar with the total number of days in a year: 365. But how many of those days are working days? To answer this question requires some calcul...
With a nickname that seems as much made for a movie poster as a police investigation, the so-called West Mesa Bone Collector may be currently active in the town of Albuquerque, New Mexico — or anywhere else, for that matter. The mysterious killer hit the spotlight in 2009, whenpolice fou...
Somewhere around seven million Jews live in America – nearly as many as in Israel. Together, those two countries comprise 80% of the world’s Jewish population. Israeli Jews are different than American Jews. Israeli Jews are mostly first- or second-generation immigrants to Israel. Jews who im...
Trotsky went to live in exile in Mexico but was assassinated there by a Spanish communist [source: History.com]. Stalin took Lenin's methods of terrorizing the people a few steps further. Whereas Lenin let people starve to death, Stalin used famine to further his political goals. He took ...
The Venezuelans in Miami have made things easier for Jews from other Spanish-speaking countries as well, says Dana Nicolaievsky, who moved from Mexico City to North Miami Beach 10 years ago. “They have enriched the Latin and non-Latin community here in Miami because they are as active as...
Between 1854 and 1929, as many as 250,000 children from New York and other Eastern cities were sent by train to towns in Midwestern and western states, as well as Canada and Mexico. However, this was mainly a transportation of poor children who had families, and not true...
Tradescantia zebrina is a native of Central and South America, from Mexico down to Colombia, as well as the Caribbean. Here, it forms part of the undergrowth in lightly forested and often very moist areas. It can form very dense, wide mats thanks to its creeping growth pattern and ability...