in 44BC, AD 626, 934, 1258, 1783 and, of course, 536, have resulted in a deadly period of epidemic disease in Europe, the Middle-east, or both within one to five years. For this odd trend to be pure chance is, as prominent NASA scientist RB Stothers put it, ‘a very unlikely ...
Critics Consensus: Smart and utterly original, The Draughtsman's Contract is a period piece that marks the further maturation of a writer-director with a thrillingly unique vision. Synopsis: Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway's witty, stylized, erotic country house...
Cannibalism has happened often enough in human history that archaeologists are familiar with the distinctive cut marks left on the bones of victims. When the skull, jawbone and one leg of a girl aged about 14 were found in the cellar of the old Jamestown fort, where the colonists sheltered ...
She went deaf almost overnight; it was The BUG, typically, who first noticed. She stopped spending the nights with us and started yelling to be let outside at 5a.m.— withdrawing from Human company, taking refuge in the morning cool of the front porch. That phase lasted only a week or...
a mere $20 million on a $80 million budget. It was the start of a long wilderness period for Costner where virtually nothing he made seemed to connect. 43 Frances Ford Coppola Casts His Daughter Sofia for Key Role In ‘The Godfather III’...
We are in the year 169. Erupted under the Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Vero, the latter died in this period and who had the patronymic “antoninus”, the plague decimated the population of large parts of the Roman Empire, with a number of deaths estimated between 5 and 20 millions....
Likely a pain in the butt for any of the 18 million drivers at the time, the traffic jam did have a pretty good reason behind it. At the same time, Germany was going through its reunification period in which East and West Germany became one. ...
I crossed the line during a regrettable period in my life.” We have no idea how his wife feels about all this (she’s still with him and they’re often seen together in public), but the internet never forgets. He’ll be seeing jokes about “I need to see the booty” in his ment...
On various occasions in history, the planet has been compelled to shoulder some of the worst environmental disasters caused by human activities. The disasters range from wars to nuclear explosions, chemical spill, toxic gas leaks, and oil spills.
In 2011-12, Somalia experienced the worst famine of the twenty-first century. Since then, research on the famine has focused almost exclusively on the exte... DE Al - 《Food Policy》 被引量: 4发表: 2015年 MODIS NDVI satellite data for assessing drought in Somalia during the period 2000-...