TRAVEL ADVICE FROM TRAVELING COUPLES
Its been almost two years since Anthony and I started traveling together. In that time, Ive learned more about Anthony and our rel…
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Paulescu’s Pancrein?
The discovery of insulin was no doubt a major breakthrough in medicineprior to its discovery, diabetes sufferers often died at a y…
Bayer: Take Two and Call Us in the Morning
In 1899 Farbenfabriken vormals Friedrich Bayer Co. (later Bayer AG) introduced aspirin, a pain-reliever that would come to rank h…
Everybody Stay Calm
The introduction of the tranquilizer chlorpromazine (also known as thorazine) in the 1950s represented a turning point in psychiat…
From Chemical Warfare to Cancer
Nitrogen mustards were developed in the 1920s and 30s as agents of chemical warfare. By the 1940s, however, it had become clear th…
So Retro—That Is, Antiretroviral
The U.S. Food and Drug Administrations approval in 1987 of zidovudine, more widely known as AZT, was a breakthrough in the treatme…
Population Control
In the early 1920s, Austrian scientist Ludwig Haberlandt published a paper suggesting that hormones could be used as an effective …
A Life-Saving Contaminant
In 1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming was in the process of sterilizing bacterial culture plates that had become conta…
Abul Kalam Azad great Indian theologian
Abul Kalam Azad,original nameAbul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin, also calledMaulana Abul Kalam AzadorMaulana Azad (bornNovember 11, 1888…
Mohammed Ali Jinnah Pakistani first governor-general
Mohammed Ali Jinnah,also calledQaid-i-Azam (Arabic: Great Leader) (bornDecember 25, 1876?,Karachi,India[now in Pakistan]diedSeptem…
