APOLLON (or Apollo) was the great Olympian god of prophecy and oracles, healing, plague and disease, music, song and poetry, archery, and the protection of the young. Apollo’s birthplace was the sunny Greek island of Delos, where he was born along with his twin sister, Artemis, being the son of the supreme Greek god Zeus […]
The Hijra Subculture: India’s Transvestites
In the days following the Malegaon blasts and the one in Nanded before that, Bjarang Dal activists and leaders have been head to say one sentence in particular – that in the midst of rising Muslim militancy and terrorism, Hindus can not be expected to stand by like hijras and remain passive spectators ? Whether […]
Theatricality of Sound in Hypertext Writing in Romanian Literature
New technologies influence writing, triggering a redefinition of the relationship between writer-text-reader-critic and giving birth to a new contemporary fictional model, characterized by fragment organization, character crisis, dramatization of the epic and the lyric text, narrative crisis, a mixture of various aspects of language, exploration of diverse enunciative spaces. The digital era has become […]
Rare surgery performed in A.P for Dual sex Problem
Doctors at the Government General Hospital here have successfully performed a rare surgery on a 25-year-old person, suffering from dual sex problems and removed his female genital organs. In medical parlance, the condition is termed female pseudo hermaphrodite, a rare deformity found in persons suffering from Congenital Adernogenital Hyperplasia, a defect caused by a block […]
Scientific Study about Earth Worms
Earthworms are grouped under the animal phylum Annedlida, which was derived from the Latin word, anellus meaning “little” rings. As this name implies, the body of an earth worm seems to be made up of several rings which is known as segmented body. The skin of the earth worm secretes mucous. This mucous keeps the […]