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“Why the Dutch are the tallest people in the world” (Lido em; CNN 2021-12-31)

“The unearthing of Ireland's mysterious naked sweathouses”

Until the 1900s, when people in Ireland got sick, they would get naked and disappear into steamy saunas. Now, a new project is aiming to uncover these timeworn structures' secrets.

Naked and sweaty, they laid inside grass-covered stone igloo-like structures in the remote fields of Ireland. Some were ill, others may have been having hallucinations, hatching plans to distil illegal alcohol or imagining they were the Vikings who once raided this country. By the time these addled folk emerged from the structures back into the fresh air of 19th-Century Ireland, they had been through a jarring mental and physical journey. One that still holds many mysteries. (Lido em BBCNews 2021-10-11)

“(...) Uma das suas sábias palavras: “A mulher é como um saquinho de chá é, disse a Sra. Roosevelt. “Nunca se sabe quando ela é forte até estar em água quente.” HILLARY RODAM CLINTON (Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vivendo a História, Editora Globo, Sao Paulo, 2008 (2003))

“'Queerness isn't a western concept': Adeju Thompson is bringing genderless Nigerian fashion to the world (...)” (Lido em: CNNNEWS 2021-06-18)

“Brasileiros estudam a Bíblia sob os olhos da história e da arqueologia

Pesquisadores se dedicam a investigar a fundo o que a ciência sabe - e tem descoberto - sobre relatos, pessoas e períodos retratados nas escrituras sagradas (...)” (Lido em Google)

“They are killing our forest, Brazilian tribe warns”

“Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has asked for $1bn (£720m) a year in foreign aid to reduce illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. But under Mr Bolsonaro deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has soared, jeopardising the livelihoods of some of the world's most vulnerable indigenous communities. (…)” (Lido em: BBCNews 202105-01)

“A definição de 'Ladrão”

'Na vida, existem dois tipos de ladrões:

1— O ladrão comum: é aquele que rouba o seu dinheiro, a sua carteira, o seu relógio, o seu cavalo, etc.

2— O ladrão político: é aquele que rouba o seu futuro, os seus sonhos, o seu conhecimento, o seu salário, a sua educação, a sua saúde, as suas forças, o seu sorriso, etc.

A grande diferença entre estes dois tipos de ladrões, é que o ladrão comum escolhe-o a si para roubar os seus bens, enquanto o ladrão político é você que o escolhe, para ele o roubar.

A outra grande diferença, não menos importante, é que o ladrão comum é procurado pela polícia, enquanto o ladrão político é geralmente protegido pela polícia.

Conclusão:

Pensemos bem antes de escolher 'o ladrão'”

VOLTAIRE

“A photographic history of men in love”

“When Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell came across an old photograph at an antique store in Dallas, Texas, they saw something of themselves reflected in the image.

Taken around 1920, it showed two men in front of a house, posing in a loving embrace at a time when being gay was not only frowned upon but effectively illegal.

"It represented us, so we bought the photo, took it home and had it on our desks for six or nine months," Treadwell recalled in a phone interview from the couple's home in New York City. "It was a random find, and we never thought we'd find another one." Yet, in the two decades since, the pair discovered far more -- in fact, by scouring auctions, junk stores and flea markets, they've amassed an archive of almost 3,000 images of men in love. (...)”              (Lido em: CNNNews 2021-02-22)

“In a few scrawled notes to a friend, biologist Charles Darwin theorised how life began. Not only was it probably correct, his theory was a century ahead of its time.

"Charles Darwin had some rather good ideas. His most famous is the theory of evolution by natural selection, which explains much of what we know about life on Earth. But he also pondered many other questions. In a hasty letter to a friend, he put forward an idea about how the first life might have formed. Some 150 years later, that letter looks remarkably prescient – maybe even prophetic.

Contrary to popular belief, Darwin was not the first to propose that species evolve. The idea that animal populations change over time, so that for instance giraffes today have longer necks than their distant ancestors, was much discussed in the 1800s.(...)” (Lido em: BBCNews 2020-11-14)

“Comment Marie la juive, mère de Jésus, est devenue la Vierge qui enfanta Dieu”

“Si Marie est une des femmes les plus célèbres de l’histoire, elle est également très mal connue. Entretien avec l’historien James D. Tabor, qui s’est lancé dans une vaste enquête pour exhumer la « vraie Marie ».

« Comment Marie, la mère de Jésus, peut-elle susciter autant de ferveur et de dévotion alors même qu’on sait si peu de choses sur elle ? », interroge l’historien James D. Tabor, qui vient de publier Marie, de son enfance juive à la fondation du christianisme (Flammarion, 384 p., 22,90 euros). (...)”

(Lido em: Le Monde 2020-08-21)