This fascinating review describes the history of vinegar to be "as colorful as it is practical," stating that, "Hippocrates (c. 420 BC) used vinegar medicinally to manage wounds and Cleopatra (c. 50 BC) dissolved precious pearls in vinegar and offered her love potion to Anthony. Sung Tse, the 10th century creator of forensic medicine, advocated hand washing with sulfur and vinegar to avoid infe...

Drought and heat stresses are two of the most frequent environmental factors that take place simultaneously in the field constraining global crop productivity. Metabolism reconfiguration is often behind the adaptation of plants to adverse environmental conditions. Carrizo citrange and Cleopatra mandarin, two citrus genotypes with contrasting ability to tolerate combined heat and drought conditi...

the term xenophobia describes a social phenomenon rooted in fear and hatred of foreigners from different ethnic groups. this phenomenon is understandably reflected in five shakespearean plays: the merchant of venice, othello, the tempest, titus andronicus, and anthony and cleopatra; among which, the merchant of venice has more importance in addressing foreign characters and groups (i.e. shylock...

With this reinstallation, the Art Institute will hlly integrate, for the first time, computer technology as an interpretive tool in a permanent collection gallery. The museum's goal is to design an interactive multimedia program, tentatively named Cleopatra, that showcases 1 8 objects from our collection. Cleopatra will relate these objects through a variety of views of an information matrix us...

Isis: Page 6 Two recent archaeological developments have brought Cleopatra into the news. They each concern tombs—her sister Arsinoe’s tomb and her own. A skull of a skeleton found early last century in ‘The Octagon’ a tomb in Ephesus in Turkey was recently reconstructed using measurements of the skeleton taken in the 1920s. The skull itself was lost in the 1940s. The reconstructed skull turned...