Ancient Boxing: A Narrative Discussion from Archaeological and Historical Evidences

Boxing Lessons: An Historical Review of Chronic Head Trauma in Boxing and Football

In recent years there has been a significant increase in the scrutiny of head trauma in football. This attention is due largely to a host of studies that have been highly publicized and linked the repetitive head trauma in football to late-life neurological impairment. Scientists and physicians familiar with boxing have been aware of such impairment, resulting from repeated head impacts, for mo...

from historical facts to geo-political realities: relation between turkey and armenia ( 1915 – 2010)

armenias geopolitics and its historical experience have had a determining impact on the character of its foreign policy .present-day armenia is a small, landlocked country with _11,620 square miles area armenias landlocked nature makes it dependent on the benevolence of its neighbors for access to the outside world a fact that gives it a sense of isolation and vulnerability. as it was indic...

About boxing: review of historical and medical aspects.

Proposing a Function for Char-Ghapi, Qasr-e-Shirin, Iran: Historical and Archaeological Evaluation

Qasr-e Shirin owes its prominence primarily to the Sassanian period and the attention the region received from Khosrow Parviz. Khosrow took the first steps to make Qasr-e-Shirin habitable by constructing a complex consisting of a palace, a fortress, a religious building, a defensive wall and a water conveyance system. Later, Qasr-e-Shirin is mentioned in several texts and travel itineraries. Th...

Plantinga’s Reformed Epistemology and Religious Extremism: Some Historical Evidences

مطابق معرفت­شناسی اصلاح شده آلوین پلانتینگا، باورهای دینی همچون باورهای ادراکی، پایه هستند و از این رو نیازی به توجیه بیشتر ندارند. اما همانگونه که بارها گفته شده است این عقیده به نسبی­گرایی منتهی می­شود. ما در این مقاله ابتدا استدلال می­کنیم که نه فقط بعد نسبی­گرایانه آن نظریه به افراط­گرایی دینی منجر می­شود، بلکه می­توان از آن برای توجیه افراط­گرایی نیز استفاده کرد. سپس با ذکر چند گواهی تاریخ...