On 24 July 1920 the first and only king in modern history of Syria, Faysal I, was dethroned exiled by invading army colonial France. Although later rewarded with job Iraq, I never lost his appetite for crown Damascus, nor did any brothers, nephews, other royals from Hashemite family. Much has been written about Faysal’s era which began October 1918 lasted until 1920. Few historians, however, ha...

Gonococcal infections are usually localized to the urogenital tract, but may sometimes spread extragenitally and cause cutaneous manifestations, arthritis, tenosynovitis, meningitis, endocarditis, or perihepatitis (Stajano, 1920; Bruusgaard and Thjotta, 1925; Curtis, 1930; Fitz-Hugh, 1934; Williams, 1938; Abu-Nassar, Hill, Fred, and Yow, 1963; Keiser, Ruben, Wolinsky, and Kushner, 1968; Amman, ...

The Romanian School of Pathology from Cluj has an important prestige, well known in Romania and abroad. It was founded in the same year with the Romanian Faculty of Medicine from the same City. The founder of the School of Pathology was Victor Babes (1854-1926). In 1920, his role was continued by his remarkable pupil Titu Vasiliu (1885-1961). Unfortunately, a personality of this School of Patho...

IN the last few years there has been an increasing interest in animal rhythms. Various aspects of the subject have been reviewed by Szymanski (1920), Fox (1923), Hoffmann (1926), Richter (1927), AmirthaUngam (1928), Stein-Beling (1935), Scott (1936), Gunn et al. (1937), Pie'ron (1937) and Kalmus (1938a, b). This paper is concerned with the daily rhythm in the locomotory activity of the cockroac...

[1] Three alternate China-wide temperature composites covering the last 2000 years were established by combining multiple paleoclimate proxy records obtained from ice cores, tree rings, lake sediments and historical documents. Five periods of temperature variation can be identified: a warm stage in AD 0–240, a cold interval between AD 240 and 800, a return to warm conditions from AD 800–1400, i...

‘Nature does not take leaps,’ the scientist says, ‘There are always overlaps, bridges or something else in between.’ But why should Psyche – the most beautiful daughter of Physis (Nature) – take leaps, even when she is ill? ‘Because Emil Kraepelin decided so 110 years ago’, say some psychiatrists, and they add ‘The Kraepelinian dichotomy is – as we hope – well known to all of you’. Yes, of cour...

Sleeping sickness has long been a major public health problem in Uganda. From 1900 to 1920, more than 250,000 people died in an epidemic that affected the southern part of the country, particularly the Busoga region. The epidemic has traditionally been ascribed to Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, a parasite now confined to central and western Africa. The Busoga region still reports sleeping sickne...