Corneliszitman

Extraordinary. Mushrooms fall into the love hate category. You either love em or not so much. No middle ground. Regardless of which group you inhabit, mushrooms have long been the subject of great fascination. They are found the world over and date back throughout man s history. In a Jurassic Park-like moment, a scientist recently found a mushroom encased in tree sap that is many millions of years old. In ancient times, Egyptians were so enamored with mushrooms that they called them sons of gods, sent to earth on bolts of thunder and declared them food fit only for Royalty. No commoner was permitted to touch them, much less eat them. The Romans were obsessed with fungi and passed laws declaring mushrooms as the food of the Gods. In medieval Ireland, mushrooms were regarded as umbrellas for leprechauns and even the gastronomically challenged British had their own legends about mushrooms. They believed...

The happiest people are those who do not judge others, live in kindness and love themselves. Do you ever see someone who is perpetually happy and wish you could be like them. You CAN achieve a healthy self-esteem it takes time and effort. Following are seven steps to help you on your way to becoming a happier, healthier YOU. IDENTIFY One is not required to live by I have to or I must everything we do is a result of a decision a choice. Choices made in our younger years and choices made this morning when we woke up. Everything is a choice: to obey or disobey; to study or not study; to eat right or not eat right. When making these choices, we control everything about our lives including our future and our level of self-awareness. When you see a wise, confident, beautiful person it s not luck, it s choice. Once you realize and accept this, only then can you begin to become who it is you want to be. All of...

They definitely don t make happy hour like they used to. Those of us fortunate to have been old enough to drink during the era of disco dancing and the mullet hairdo definitely know this to be an absolute truth. The decade of the 80 s is best remembered for many things but few realize that it was the decade during which the happy hour was reborn. The idea of featuring alcoholic beverages before dinner wasn t new during the 80 s. In fact, by then consumption of alcohol had been going on for centuries. The era of Prohibition attempted to change all that, but those efforts failed. Back between the years 1920 and 1933 it was illegal to manufacture, import, export, or sell alcoholic beverages in the United States. Happy hour during Prohibition. But being unable to get alcoholic beverages from the nearby store or the local restaurant didn t stop anyone from drinking if that s what they wanted to do. Before...

Although the Type A influenza virus which is responsible for Avian Flu or more commonly referred to as Bird Flu is known to be susceptible to waterfowl and poultry species only, there is a very high possibility that a new viral strain will emerge as a result of the combination of Human Influenza Virus and that of Bird Flu. This is feared to develop into a worldwide phenomenon, a pandemic which humans have no resistance to. According to the World Health Organization, similar Flu Pandemics were experienced three times in the 20th Century. Subsequent research showed that in 1997, a sub-strain developed from the mixture and exchange of genetic materials between Human Influenza and Type A Influenza Viruses. This resulted into the discovery of H5N1 strain of influenza virus which affected 18 and killed 6 in Hongkong. In 2004, bird flu was reported to have infected 44 people in several south Asian countries...