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POPSStudy Of Countries I do not claim that sites such as this are the be all and end all of research regarding any given country. But still they are fairly comprehensive. If any given country or nation intrigues you then I recommend further research. If this site creates a even greater thirst for knowledge then I will have done something useful.
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POPSCleopatra's Mummy Found? more: The archaeologist said in the tombs have been tables for offerings, wine and beer jars, 22 currencies with the images of Cleopatra and Alexander the Great and a funeral mask of a man with a fracture on the chin that says has bears a resemblance with the paintings of Marc Antony. SOURCE: listin.com.do
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POPSJose, Maximo Colon Turn Tables On NYPD With Videotape On May 13, another NYPD officer was arrested for plotting to invade a Manhattan apartment where he hoped to steal $900,000 in drug money. In another pending case, prosecutors in Brooklyn say officers were caught in a 2007 sting using seized drugs to reward a snitch for information. And in the Bronx, prosecutors have charged a detective with lying about a drug bust captured on a surveillance tape that contradicts her story. Elsewhere, Philadelphia prosecutors dismissed more than a dozen drug and gun charges against a man last month when a narcotics officer was accused of making up information on search warrants.
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POPSRenaissance Man After 500 years, one of Renaissance Italy's most enduring murder mysteries has been solved by forensic scientists. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's fame has faded, but he was a celebrated figure at the Medici court. The flamboyant philosopher became an instant favourite of Lorenzo de' Medici when he arrived in Florence in 1486. Lorenzo was charmed by Pico, who was essentially a Platonic philosopher influenced by Oriental mysticism. He became famous for his incredible memory and his knowledge of Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic. Savonarola repeatedly preached against the Medicis, urging Florentines to reject the excesses of the Renaissance. Works by Botticelli and Michelangelo were burned during the "Bonfire of the Vanities" in 1497, when the monk's followers set fire to lavish furniture, mirrors, pagan books and immoral sculptures in the Piazza della Signora.
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POPSMutating vaccine causes polio outbreak in Nigeria The agency discussed the first 16 cases it knew of at meetings early this year and posted information on its Web site in April, "but only in places where lab people would look," he said. Outbreaks of vaccine-derived polio are unusual but not unheard of. Individual cases have been known for years. For example, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia was partly paralyzed in 1973, apparently after changing the diapers of his son, who had received an oral vaccine. The first spreading outbreak of a vaccine-derived strain, in which 22 children were paralyzed, was detected in 2001 in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Experts now believe that another took place in Egypt in the late 1980s but went unnoticed amid the much larger numbers of wild-type infections. There have been others in the Philippines, Madagascar, China and Indonesia.
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POPSHOLY SHIT JT!!! So it probably comes as no secret that jt3600 is my favorite new clipper and we need more people like him to bring us laughter in the world! Having said that, I'm praying that he will make it ok through all of this . . .
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POPSWar is a Racket Wars are really a continuous stream of coordinated acts of terrorism, related to money and power instigated by the people who will benefit from the war and its expected end result. War is an instrument to expand economic power by destroying the national institutions and intelligent people of the victimized nation.
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POPSUS Loves Peace? Practices WAR! Only! "Who has China been invading lately? Russia? Fidel? Those perfidious (and perfumed) French? Heck, even Saddam couldn't touch this record for aggression, especially once you account for the fact that the U.S. government assisted his foreign soiree into Iran (complete with the chemical weapons, of course) and likely green-lighted the one into Kuwait as well. ...AlterNet
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POPSWhen English and Spanish Collide Scoop. *LOL* I love it when people talk funny. It's so endearing. I don't speak Spanish myself, though I would love to. All I can say is the Spanish word for beer, which is cerveza. That's all you really need to know. :)
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POPSChildren's letters to Obama continues (more at source): I am small, quiet, smart. I love to swim and play basketball. My mom and dad are from the Dominican Republic. I am going to the Dominican Republic next year. I think you should try to change the world by building shelters for the people who live in the streets. It’s the beginning of January, and it’s cold. Good luck being the president. — Pamela Mejia, age 11, Boston •
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POPSGiordano Bruno Interesting fellow ...sadly he met a painful end due to his ideas which clashed with the Church at the time.
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POPS CARNIVAL It is Carnival Season in many countries around the world with a Roman Catholic heritage. Celebrations and parades put on just prior to the observance of Lent. Tomorrow will be the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but the past couple of weeks have seen parades and celebrations throughout Europe, the Caribbean and South America - notably Venice, Italy and Brazil. Collected here are just a glimpse of some of the elaborate celebrations of this Carnival season. (40 photos total) I strenuously recommend viewing photos on the website. They are spectacular and stunning.
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POPSTwo Hispanic Hillary Clinton Supporters Endorse John McCain Secaira, who is of Dominican descent, traveled to eight states to coordinate grassroots efforts for Senator Clinton, has a doctorate of neuropsychology and was trained at New York University. ARLINGTON, VA — Today, McCain-Palin 2008 held a press conference call with Miguel D. Lausell, Senior Political Advisor to Hillary Clinton, and Clinton Delegate-at-Large Luchy Secaira. Both Lausell and Secaira endorsed John McCain for president. On Barack Obama’s recent ad that used out-of-context quotes from Rush Limbaugh to insinuate that John McCain insulted Hispanics: Secaira: “There goes the new politics. I don’t see anything new about put-down politics. And once again, I want to reiterate that the Hispanic community has nothing to fear because they know John McCain. uppitywoman08.wordpress.com
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POPSDemocrat Health Care, By The Numbers they were forced to wait 60 days to begin post-operative radiation treatments. 280,392: The number of jobs that employers would shed if government levied an employer mandate, requiring them to insure all employees. A 2007 study by Katherine Baicker of Harvard University and Helen Levy of the University of Michigan ("Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment") 37: The "health care ranking" assigned to the U.S. by the World Health Organization among the world's countries. This oft -quoted number is used to justify an overhaul of the U.S. health care system and lists countries like Italy (2), Andorra (4), Malta (5), Singapore (6), Oman (8), Portugal (12), Greece (14), the United Kingdom (18), Ireland (19), Columbia (22), Cyprus (24), Saudi Arabia (26), the UAE (27), Morocco (29), Canada (30), Chile (33), the Dominican Republic (35) and Costa Rica (36) ahead of the U.S.
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