Long ridiculed for their racial hybridity, India’s Anglo-Indians—a mixed race people—were called ‘Dingos’ and instructed rudely to “Go to Australia” after India won her Independence from the British in 1947. Although their first port of escape from India was Great Britain, thousands of Anglo-Indians left the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) in the second wave of migration, i....

practice dating from medieval times) with increasingly concentrated and accurate firepower from rifled musketry and cannon. Thus Napoleon Bonaparte would lose over 40,000 dead and wounded in 2 days at the battle of Wagram (1809) while the murderous engagement at Antietam in the American civil war in September 1862 produced 1-day losses of 25,000 men, which rivaled even the fatalities of the Bri...

Anatomically corrected malposition of the great arteries (ACMGA) is defined as parallel arising of aorta and main pulmonary artery (PA) roots although ventriculoarterial connection is normal. Abnormally related aorta arises from the left ventricle, while abnormally related PA arises from the right ventricle. It can be diagnosed with via echocardiography. In some cases, additional imaging modali...

Critics, scholars and readers alike have hailed Tennessee Williams as the greatest Southern playwright one of most distinguished dramatists in history American drama. He is indisputably renowned second half 20th century. This article endeavors to make an overview Williams’s lyrical drama, focusing on its main features such characterization, art, language, major themes represented his plays, etc...

There is not one systems biology of aging, but two. Though aging can evolve in either sexual or asexual species when there is asymmetric reproduction, the evolutionary genetics of aging in species with frequent sexual recombination are quite different from those arising when sex is rare or absent. When recombination is rare, selection is expected to act chiefly on rare large-effect mutations, w...

In the introduction to Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century, the author declares that the experiments described in her book “deserve to be not only reported on as research, but also celebrated as story” (p. 3). It is unfortunate that in telling these stories, too much of the science that is also part of the story is sacrificed. The book focuses on pers...