Roderigo Lopez, former Physician-in-Chief to Queen Elizabeth I of England, was a controversial figure in his time and continues to be the subject of controversy. Much has been written about his religious practice, politics, and guilt, or lack thereof, with regard to charges of treason to the Crown. However, the fact remains that Lopez was the only physician to the Crown to be sentenced to death...

the so-called “third world” has often experienced modernity and its version of the “city” in some of their most grotesque forms where iran has not been an exception. in other words, north-atlantic powers have historically played the midwife for a father-figure-like modernity and its “third world” concubines, the result of which has been the birth of “monstrosities” of all kinds. focusing mainly...

have been the result of tophi-large deposits of chalky concretions composed of needle-shaped crystals of monosodium urate. Unfortunately, if any tophi survived after two millennia in the soil, they were not recognized at the excavation and subsequent cleaning of the skeleton. It will be noted from the above description and from the plates that many of the lesions are not strictly para-articular...

The so-called “third world” has often experienced modernity and its version of the “city” in some of their most grotesque forms where Iran has not been an exception. In other words, North-Atlantic powers have historically played the midwife for a father-figure-like modernity and its “third world” concubines, the result of which has been the birth of “monstrosities” of all kinds. Focusing mainly...

The subtexts of Shakespeare's plays often provide surprisingly accurate insights not only into the central themes of the plays, but also a greater understanding of the unifying elements. The subtexts from a representative sampling of plays from each of the major periods reveáis that such subtextual elements as repeated words, near synonyms and recurrent images are fairly accurate assessors of t...