Search results for slave trade:
Web site links African-Americans to ancestors' voyage
Jan 06, 2009 |
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In a major advance in genealogical research, African-Americans will be able to trace the routes of slave ships that transported 12.5 million of their ancestors from Africa as early as the 16th century.
Mysterious sailor unearthed by Cranfield archaeologists
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Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mystery surrounds a sailor who was unearthed as part of Cranfield University's dig at Royal Hospital Haslar this summer.
Hulu.com lets you legally watch premium video content
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Most of us don't watch television the way we did just a few short years ago. Back then, we had to watch TV shows when they were aired, a slave to the broadcasting schedule whim of the networks.
Tourists to the Caribbean should pay 1 dollar each to help fight tropical diseases of poverty
May 28, 2008 |
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Away from the beaches, resorts, and cruise ships of the Caribbean, there lies a hidden underbelly of poverty and with this poverty comes endemic neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). In an editorial in this month's PLoS Ne ...
The entwined destinies of mankind and leprosy bacteria
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Leprosy still affects hundreds of thousands of people today throughout the entire world. An international team headed by EPFL professor Stewart Cole has traced the history of the disease from ancient Egypt to today and in ...
The path to history is through the stomach
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Jan 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Helicobacter pylori can cause stomach ulcers and cancers. Over half of the world’s inhabitants carrys this bacterium, but different variants are present on different continents. Up to now, ...
Networking around the clock
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Apr 05, 2007 |
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A Brandeis University study published in Cell this week shows for the first time experimentally that the circadian cells in fruit flies function as a network that enables the insects to adapt their behavior according to sea ...
Men doing field research on women are limited to certain subjects
Jun 26, 2008 |
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From the Petri dish in the controlled environment of a sterile laboratory to the faraway fields of another country, virtually anything can be the topic of scientific study. However, a University of Missouri religion professor ...
Cooperative system could wipe out car alarm noise
Jun 24, 2008 |
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The persistent, annoying blare of an ignored car alarm may become a sound of the past if a cooperative, mutable and silent network of monitors proposed by Penn State researchers is deployed in automobiles and parking lots.
New research refutes myth of pure Scandinavian race
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Jun 09, 2008 |
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A team of forensic scientists at the University of Copenhagen has studied human remains found in two ancient Danish burial grounds dating back to the iron age, and discovered a man who appears to be of arabian origin. The ...
Racial disparities in cardiovascular health linked to birth weight, slavery
Oct 16, 2008 |
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Two new articles examine the theory of "fetal programming" and their effect on racial health disparities. The studies, published in American Journal of Human Biology, suggest that the higher rates of hypertension and cardio ...
Ancient sheep help pinpoint brain timing mechanisms linked to Seasonal Affective Disorder
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Aug 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Aberdeen scientists suggests that Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) relates to an ancient timing mechanism in the brain dating back millions of years.
The first men and women from the Canary Islands were Berbers
Oct 21, 2009 |
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A team of Spanish and Portuguese researchers has carried out molecular genetic analysis of the Y chromosome (transmitted only by males) of the aboriginal population of the Canary Islands to determine their ...
'Avatar' video game to expand film's alien world
Nov 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- James Cameron was thinking beyond the big screen when he created the alien world of Pandora. The "Titanic" director worked in tandem with video game developer Ubisoft Montreal on the game based on ...
Sub-Saharan Africa: the population emergency
Jan 08, 2008 |
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Sub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing phenomenal population growth since the beginning of the XXth Century, following several centuries of population stagnation attributable to the slave trade and colonization. The region’s ...
