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Dr. Walter Freeman's Frontal Lobotomies at Athens (Ohio) State Hospital
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Few chapters in the medical history of Athens County, Ohio, are more notorious or fascinating than that concerning Walter Freeman, M.D., and the more than 200 frontal lobotomies he performed at the Athens State Hospital in seven visits between 1953 a ...
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By Gary Cordingley, MD, PhD Hits: 26319
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Chavez's Inspiration - Simon Bolivar
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Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary freedom fighter, a compassionate egalitarian and a successful politician. He is credited with the liberation from Spanish colonial yoke of Venezuela, Col ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 26266
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The Aung San Family in Myanmar
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Aung San Suu Kyi is a much revered opposition leader in Myanmar (Burma) (born 1945). She has bravely resisted - and still does - the murderous military regime in her homeland and has won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
Her mother was amba ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 29794
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Myths of the American Civil War
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The Civil War (1861-5) has spawned numerous myths and falsities.
The Republicans did not intend to abolish slavery - just to "contain" it, i.e., limit it to the 15 states where it had already existed. Most of the Democrats accepted thi ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 6545
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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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"'Unbounded' morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality."
Thomas Sowell
There's a story about Robespierre that has th ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 18176
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Slavery in the USA
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Spanish settlements in the territory of the current-day USA owned slaves as early as 1526. Twenty one African chattel slaves were first brought to British North America ( to Jamestown, Virginia) in 1619. They joined white indentured laborers (servant ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 23566
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The American Revolution
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The American Revolution was a civil war between Loyalists to the British crown (aka Tories, about one fifth of the population), supported by British expeditionary forces, and Patriots (or Whigs) in the 13 colonies that constituted British North Ameri ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 5324
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Thousands of Failures, but Thousands of Patents
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Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he revolutionized the world by inventing and patenting the incandescent light bulb. Because of his desire to create the incandescent light, he was one of the most persistent people in history. The invent ...
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By Sean North Hits: 23064
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