Black Shang of ChinaPicture caption: Shang dynasty chariot sacrifice with two horses and driver partially visible behind. This well-pre-served burial was excavated in 1972 near Anyang. The chariot is an improved version of a type that first appeared in West Asia around 1600 BC. The practice of chariot sacrifice exemplifies the combination of war and religion in early Chinsese political organization. read more
Rare Silver Dwarf Only a handful of human figures from the pre-Han period are preserved. The majority of these represent kneeling servants and some evidently were intended as supports for trays and lamp-holders. The figure here illustrated, and another of a leather-clad solder attributed to the Han period, are the only examples of silver statuary surviving from early times. The dating of the dwarfrests on the treatment of the face, which relates it to some of the bronze figures datable to the 5th – 3rd centuries BC read more
An international search was under way Wednesday for a cargo ship that vanished after its crew reported they were hijacked — at least briefly — nearly two weeks ago.read more
Ten things you’re not supposed to know about the swine flu vaccine
(At least, not by anyone in authority…)
#1 – The vaccine production was “rushed” and the vaccine has never been tested on humans. Do you like to play guinea pig for Big Pharma? If so, line up for your swine flu vaccine this fall…read more
Patients with Low-grade glioma (LGG) brain tumours, have been advised to consider skipping medical treatment since the consequences of treatment could be worse that the disease itself.read more
Nigeria, Gambia to sign pact on technical aid agreement
NIGERIA and the Gambia are to sign a bilateral agreement on the Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme that has existed between the two countries after over two decades of its operation.read more
Medical ErrorU.S. Medical Negligence Death Rate Doubles
Preventable medical mistakes and infections are responsible for about 200,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, according to an investigation by the Hearst media corporation. The report comes 10 years after the Institute of Medicine’s “To Err Is Human” analysis, which found that 44,000 to 98,000 people were dying annually due to these errors and called for the medical community and government to cut that number in half by 2004. read more
Six months after the last presidential election in Ghana, the country’s former leader, Jerry Rawlings, has credited the success of the poll to President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s persistent pressure on former president John Kuffuor of Ghana to allow the electoral commission declare the authentic winner.read more
Six months since taking the reins, the Barack Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up the murderous imperial agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived by the appeal of the Obama image, pay no attention to realities. read more
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