Jeff Davis, president of the Confederacy, and his Muurish wife, Varina Banks Howell Davis.

“Varina Banks Howell Davis (May 7, 1826 – October 16, 1906) was the second wife of the politician Jefferson Davis, who became president of the Confederate States of America. She served as the First Lady of the new nation at the capital in Richmond, Virginia” Wiki read more

Worldwide many people use eddoes and research shows that the parts of the eddo used for healing differ from culture to culture. Some people use the juice of the root (coms) for hair loss, piles and internally as a laxative; some apply heated tubers to painful rheumatic joints.

In Hawaii, the ends of the petioles are used on bleeding wounds and the stems of the leaves on insect bites and to prevent joint swelling and pain. The juice is used for fever. It can also be used as a good nutritional supplement for those who have weight loss problems associated with cancer, AIDS and pancreatitis. Eddoes can also be used to prevent lung and oral cavity cancer.

Try using eddoes to help regulate heart rate and blood pressure. Finally, the vote is in your hands. Vote eddoes for prosperity, healing and good health. • Annette Maynard-Watson, a teacher and herbal educator, may be contacted at silentdoctors@gmail.com or call 250-6450. • – See more at: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/26991/vote-eddoes-health#sthash.YM5hb0f4.dpuf

According to the Livestrong database :
Total Fat 0.4g
Saturated Fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg
Sodium 0mg
Total Carbohydrate 45.9g
Dietary Fiber 4.2g
Sugars 1.9g
Protein 2.5g
this was for fro Tescos eddoes and is of course only as accurate as the person who recorded it.

It’s commonly known that eddoes contain carbohydrate and fiber which are excellent for people with digestive problems. Eddoe flour is used in infant formula and canned baby foods. Other benefits of eddoes may include lowering cholesterol levels, slowing absorption of glucose, reducing insulin requirements and reducing the likelihood of colorectal cancer.

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Immune System Health: Perhaps the most important element of taro root for health is its role in the immune system. It has a very high level of vitamin C in each serving, which stimulates the immune system to create more white blood cells, which defend the body from foreign pathogens and agents. Furthermore, vitamin C acts as an antioxidant, which partially prevents the development of conditions such as heart disease and cancer.

Circulation Stimulation: The mineral content of taro root has dozens of useful applications, but the dual presence of iron and copper in taro root make it a very important food to prevent anemia and boost circulation throughout the body. Iron and copper are both essential for the production of red blood cells, which carry the all-important oxygen to our body’s systems and cells. By lowering your chances of anemia (iron deficiency) and boost the flow of blood through the body, you can speed overall metabolism, growth of new cells, and general oxygenation of the body, which is always a good idea to keep organs and systems functioning at their optimal levels!

Lime and Sickle cell anemia (SCA)

According to the CDC, SCA afflicts about 95,000 Americans and is diagnosed in 1 in every 500,000 African-American births. A hereditary blood disorder, SCA is characterized by an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying hemoglobin molecule in red blood cells. A clinical trial on lime juice was recently found to reduce painful episodes (50.0% lime juice intervention versus 92.7% control); febrile illness (46.6% lime juice intervention versus 87.3% control) and hospital admission rate (3.4% lime juice intervention versus 34.5% control) for sickle cell anemia in children.

Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne parasitic disease, which the WHO estimates causes 219 million of illness resulting in 660,000 deaths each year. A wide range of highly toxic drugs are used to treat the disease, but a recent study found that lime juice greatly increased malarial clearance when combined with standard drug therapy.[1] They concluded: “lime juice when used with the appropriate antimalarial may enhance malaria parasite clearance especially in those with uncomplicated malaria.”

Bacterial Agents In Food
A recent study found that the popular food known as ceviche, naturally containing pathogenic agents from fish, could be completely sanitized with lime juice. Both Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Salmonella enterica (two common causes of food poisoning) were all reduced to below detection limits through the addition of lime extract.[2]

Disinfecting water
Lime has been found to enhance the disinfection of water, by both killing norovirus as well as Escherichia coli.[3] Lime has also been found to kill the cholera pathogen, which is believed to affect 3–5 million people and causes 100,000–130,000 deaths a year as of 2010.[4]

Killing pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is a notoriously difficult to treat type of cancer. Lime juice was found to induce programmed cell death in pancreatic cancer cells.[5]

Stopping Smoking
Likely the most preventable cause of death on this planet, a clinical trial comparing nicotine gum to lime juice extract found “Fresh lime can be used effectively as a smoking cessation aid.”[6]

http://myscienceacademy.org/2014/12/04/lime-juice-could-save-100s-of-thousands-of-lives-each-year/

Historians rarely agree on details, so a lot about Cromwell’s inner life is still up for debate. But it is a truly tough job finding anything heroic in the man’s legacy of brutality and naked ambition.

Against a backdrop of Henry VIII’s marital strife, the pathologically ambitious Cromwell single-handedly masterminded the break with Rome in order to hand Henry the Church, with its all-important control of divorce and marriage. There were, to be sure, small pockets of Protestantism in England at the time, but any attempt to cast Cromwell’s despotic actions as sincere theological reform are hopeless. Cromwell himself had minimal truck with religious belief. He loved politics, money, and power, and the reformers could give them to him.

Flushed with the success of engineering Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and his marriage to Anne Boleyn, Cromwell moved on to confiscating the Church’s money. Before long, he was dissolving monasteries as fast as he could, which meant seizing anything that was not nailed down and keeping it for himself, for Henry, and for their circle of friends. It was the biggest land-grab and asset-strip in English history, and Cromwell sat at the centre of the operation, at the heart of a widely-loathed, absolutist, and tyrannical regime. When Anne Boleyn pointed out that the money should be going to charity or good works, he fitted her up on charges of adultery, and watched as she was beheaded.

As an adviser to Henry, Cromwell could have attempted to guide the hot-headed king, to tame his wilder ambitions, counsel him in patience, uphold the many freedoms enjoyed by his subjects. But Cromwell had no interest in moderation. He made all Henry’s dreams come true, riding roughshod over the law of the land and whoever got in his way. For instance, we are hearing a lot about Magna Carta this year, but Cromwell had no time for tedious trials and judgement by peers. With lazy strokes of his pen, he condemned royalty, nobles, peasants, nuns, and monks to horrific summary executions. We are not talking half a dozen. He dispatched hundreds under his highly politicised “treason” laws. (When his own time came and the tables had turned, he pleaded to Henry: “Most gracyous prynce I crye for mercye mercye mercye.” But he was given all the mercy he had shown others.)

And then there is his impact on this country’s artistic and intellectual heritage. No one can be sure of the exact figure, but it is estimated that the destruction started and legalised by Cromwell amounted to 97% of the English art then in existence. Statues were hacked down. Frescoes were smashed to bits. Mosaics were pulverized. Illuminated manuscripts were shredded. Wooden carvings were burned. Precious metalwork was melted down. Shrines were reduced to rubble. This vandalism went way beyond a religious reform. It was a frenzy, obliterating the artistic patrimony of centuries of indigenous craftsmanship with an intensity of hatred for imagery and depicting the divine that has strong and resonant parallels today.

Cromwell

Zana: Did DNA Tests Show 19th Century Abkhazian Woman was ‘100% Sub-Saharan African’?

A great deal of confused speculation has developed around the biological identity of a “wild woman” named Zana, who reportedly lived during the 19th century in a remote village called T’Khina in Abkhazia, south of Russia.

Zana, described by eyewitnesses as an athletic and muscular six-foot, six-inch “half-human, half ape” woman covered in auburn hair “who could outrun a horse,” was reportedly captured in the mountainous forests of the Ochamchir region of Abkhazia in the 1850’s by a group of hunters hired by a local merchant.

She resisted her captors violently. But she was subdued and sold to a local nobleman who made her serve as a household servant and sex slave.

Eyewitness accounts compared her to a wild beast with an “expression which was pure animal.” Her fierce resistance likely contributed to exaggerated tales of her physical prowess.

Although, evidence indicates that she was human, people have speculated that she was “non-human.” Some have suggested that she was an Almas, while others have suggested that she was a surviving Neanderthal.

The facts about the woman, including the details of her physical features and appearance, appeared to have been exaggerated by witnesses who, being overwhelmed by their impression of her “wildness” at the time she was captured, and her distinctive features, tended to give accounts that emphasized supposedly non-human “ape-like” traits, including extraordinary strength and physique.

Artist Impression of Zana

She was forced into sexual relations with local men, including a man called Edgi Genaba, and gave birth to several children. Contemporary accounts indicated that her children were human in appearance, behavior and adaptability. Thus, the impression that she was “non-human” might have been due to her state at the time she was found, after having lived and survived apparently alone under harsh conditions in the wild.

Four of her children survived to adulthood: Two boys, Dzhanda and Khwit, born in 1878 and 1884 respectively, and two girls, Kodzhanar and Gamasa, born in 1880 and 1882 respectively. The children reportedly grew up as normal human adults, married and had families of their own.

Zana’s son Khwit and grand daughter

Zana herself reportedly died in 1890.

Speculation after her death that she might have been an Almas, Yeti, a Neanderthal or some other exotic or cryptozoological species led Dr. Grover Krantz to examine Khwit’s skull in 1990.

Krantz’s pronouncement that the skull was human, with no Neanderthal traits, suggests that Zana could have been a member of an ancient aboriginal group racially/ethnically distinct from modern groups in Abkhazia that arrived later and likely forced the gradual extinction of the original inhabitants of the area.

Conclusions by another anthropologist, who reportedly also examined the skull, appear to support the theory that Zana was an aboriginal human. The anthropologist reportedly noted that although Khwit’s skull was different from the skulls of other Abkhazia males, it was apparently human.

Indications that Zana was a member of an aboriginal human population possibly dating back to the Neolithic, but driven to extinction by later arrivals, developed a new twist when the University of Oxford professor of human genetics Bryan Sykes concluded after conducting DNA tests that Zana was of “100% Sub-Saharan origin” and that she could have been a slave brought to Abkhazia under the Ottoman Empire.

According to Sykes, DNA tests on saliva samples taken from living descendants of Zana and DNA recovered from a tooth taken from the skull of Khwit showed that Zana was “100% Sub-Saharan African” and possibly a slave brought to the region by the Ottomans.

“The most obvious solution that springs to mind is that Zana or her ancestors were brought from Africa to Abkhazia as slaves, when it was part of the slave trading Ottoman Empire.”

The unfortunate aspect of Sykes’ confused “expert” speculation for the Channel 4 documentary Bigfoot Files, was that he did not clarify sufficiently what he meant when he said that Zana was “100% Sub-Saharan African.”

The professor’s confusion about the results of his DNA tests is indicated in subsequent speculation that Zana might have come from a population of ancient protohumans that left Africa in prehistoric times, about 100,000 years ago. His subsequent speculation creates uncertainty about whether Sykes thought that Zana was a modern Sub-Saharan African (read: Black African) or a descendant of a protohuman species ancestral to modern humans that migrated out of Africa in prehistoric times.

The confusion inherent to Sykes’s speculation is better appreciated when it is understood that anthropologists believe that all human races are descended from a protohuman species that migrated out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago. Thus, in a sense, all human races are of “Sub-Saharan African” origin.

The major genetic distinction between “Sub-Saharan Africans” and other modern races is that European and Asian races have significant Neanderthal admixture but “sub-Saharan Africans” do not.

Thus, Sykes’ statement that Zana was “100% Sub-Saharan African” could simply be an ineloquent way of saying that Zana was genetically similar to Africans because, unlike Europeans and Asians, she carried no significant Neanderthal genes.

Besides, eyewitness descriptions of Zana as being “very big and strong with her whole body covered in hair” does not suggest she was modern Sub-Saharan African.

Needless to say, modern Sub-Saharan Africans rank among the more prominently glabrous (smooth-skinned and hairless) of human races and there are no known Black African groups that have “whole body covered with hair,” not to mention “auburn hair.”

Hairiness is a trait of European races, not of Africans. African women are even more noticeably glabrous and only very rarely remarkably big and strong, muscular and aggressive, as eyewitness descriptions of Zana suggested she was.

“But that theory [‘100% Sub-Saharan African’ theory] would not explain her extraordinary features, described by reliable eyewitnesses… And [thus] Sykes has raised the bold theoretical possibility that Zana could be a remnant of an earlier human migration out of Africa, perhaps tens of thousands, of years ago.”

However, evidence in support of existence of aboriginal groups that predated the present populations in the Caucasus region comes from popular accounts of “wild men” in the region. One could conclude that the aboriginal populations, if they ever existed, were descendants of protohumans who never interbred with Neanderthals and thus constituted an ethnically or racially distinct group compared with modern Eurasians.

It amounts to obscurantist mischief pandering, for the sake of TV ratings, to the racist stereotype of the “ape-like” African to dub aboriginals whom Sykes speculated had lived in the Eurasian continent for tens of thousands of years “100% Sub-Saharan African.”

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1981659/zana-did-dna-tests-show-19th-century-half-human-half-ape-abkhazian-woman-100-sub-saharan-african/#zKxhabukQKvYKBuF.99

The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. By James Boswell, .. (1791)

Hebrides

A Description of THE WESTERN ISLANDS Of Scotland (CIRCA 1695)

Western Islands of Scotland
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The statuette would be without the baroque interior design of the Green Vault 1723-1724 did not occur, because it owes its existence to the desire of Augustus the Strong, establish a value of his art collection in the new treasury Museum. This involved a 1581 as a gift from the Emperor Rudolf II. To the Elector Augustus arrived, with sixteen sometimes very large emerald crystals studded chunks of limonitic rock. The dark green gems are from the few years earlier developed emerald mine in Chivor-Somondoco (Colombia). At the behest of Elector August should this “natural wonders” in “Chur-Princely bull and tribal, to eternal Gedächtnüß” be preserved. Balthasar Permoser created for since 1723 in the development conceived Treasury Museum really original presentation of all possible means, the sculpture of a “Moor”.

The young, powerful man in dark brown lacquered pearwood, the associated border on a tray tortoiseshell presents casual and supple Colombian Emerald level, is not a person in Africa, but an Indian. Although facial features and skin color are those of a black African, but the body tattoos ethnological exactly shown have him as well as a Native Florida from, as well as the precious necklaces and bracelets, breast ornaments, the feather crown, the loincloth and footwear, in accordance with an engraving Dinglinger workshop were created. Whether the two richly tattooed American Prince, who came as prisoners of war of the English captain Pecht after 1722 Dresden, have had a role model for the Mohr statuettes, devoid of probative value. However, they must have been admired as a true exotics, as the chronicler Johann Christian Krell reported that both after only three years of teaching spoke good Saxon and were eventually baptized.

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Mohr mit Smaragdstufe
Permoser, Balthasar (1651-1732)|Bildhauer
Krüger, Wilhelm|Bildhauer
Dinglinger, Johann Melchior (1664-1731)|Juwelier
Smaragdstufe: Geschenk von 1581; Juwelier- und bildhauerische Arbeiten: wohl 1724
Grünes Gewölbe

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Die Statuette wäre ohne die barocke Innenraumgestaltung des Grünen Gewölbes zwischen 1723 und 1724 nicht entstanden, denn sie verdankt ihre Existenz dem Wunsch Augusts des Starken, eine Kostbarkeit seiner Kunstkammer im neuen Schatzkammermuseum aufzustellen. Es handelte sich dabei um einen 1581 als Geschenk des Kaisers Rudolfs II. an Kurfürst August gelangten, mit sechzehn zum Teil sehr großen Smaragdkristallen besetzte Brocken aus limonitischem Gestein. Die dunkelgrünen Edelsteine stammen aus der wenige Jahre zuvor erschlossenen Smaragdmine in Chivor-Somondoco (Kolumbien). Auf Geheiß Kurfürst Augusts sollte dieses „Naturwunder“ beim „Chur-Fürstl: Hauße und Stamme, zum ewigen Gedächtnüß“ bewahrt werden. Balthasar Permoser schuf für das seit 1723 im Ausbau begriffene Schatzkammermuseum das wirklich originellste aller denkbaren Präsentationsmittel, die Skulptur eines “Mohren”. Der junge, kraftvolle Mann aus dunkelbraun lackiertem Birnholz, der lässig und geschmeidig einherschreitend auf einem Tablett aus Schildpatt die kolumbianische Smaragdstufe präsentiert, ist kein Bewohner Afrikas, sondern ein Indianer. Zwar sind Gesichtszüge und Hautfarbe die eines Schwarzafrikaners, die ethnologisch exakt dargestellten Körpertätowierungen weisen ihn jedoch ebenso als einen Ureinwohner Floridas aus, wie auch die kostbaren Hals- und Armbänder, der Brustschmuck, die Federkrone, der Lendenschurz und die Fußbekleidung, die nach einem Kupferstich in Dinglingers Werkstatt gestaltet wurden. Ob die beiden reich tätowierten amerikanischen Prinzen, die 1722 als Kriegsgefangene des englischen Kapitäns Pecht nach Dresden kamen, für die Mohrenstatuetten vorbildhaft gewirkt haben, entbehrt der Beweiskraft. Jedoch müssen sie als wahre Exoten bewundert worden sein, denn der Chronist Johann Christian Crell berichtete, dass beide nach nur drei Jahren Unterricht gut sächsisch sprachen und schließlich auch getauft wurden

The Prophet Malachi, painting by Duccio di Buoninsegna, c. 1310 (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena Cathedral).

NB: The word Mal’akhi, in original Hebrew signifies “my messenger”; it occurs in Malachi 3:1.

..According to the 1897 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, it is possible that Malachi is not a proper name, but simply means “messenger of YHWH”.

Prophet Malachi Wikipage