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Graph 1: Total suspected, probable, and confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, March 25, 2014 – August 23, 2015, by date of WHO Situation Report, n=28005

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Mysterious ancient cemetery in Egypt could contain a million mummies

 

    A mysterious ancient cemetery in Egypt could contain more than a million mummified human remains, archaeologists have claimed.

   Around 1,700 bodies have so far been uncovered at the Fag el‐Gamous (Way of the Water Buffalo) site, around 60 miles south of Cairo. But experts believe that countless more are contained in the burial ground.

    “We are fairly certain we have over a million burials within this cemetery. It's large, and it's dense,” said project director Kerry Muhlestein, an associate professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University (BYU), which has been examining the site for around 30 years.

    They were placed there between the 1st and the 7th centuries AD, but the scale of the site has left many baffled.

    A nearby village has been deemed too small to warrant such a large cemetery, while the closest major settlements had their own burial grounds.

    “It's hard to know where all these people were coming from,” Professor Muhlestein told Live Science.

    Another interesting find was that the corpses appeared to be grouped together by hair colour, with one section containing the remains of those with blonde hair and another for those with red hair.

    The bodies, which included a man of more than seven feet in height, are thought to be of ordinary citizens, rather than the royalty found at many famous Egyptian sites. They were not buried in coffins, according to Muhlestein, and were in fact mummified not by design but by the arid natural environment.

    “The people in the cemetery represent the common man. They are the average people who are usually hard to learn about because they are not very visible in written sources. A lot of their wealth, or the little that they had, was poured into these burials.”

    His team discovered objects including glassware, jewellery and linen. The findings were presented to the Scholars Colloquim at the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities in Toronto last month.

The Telegraph, London.

(http://www.traveller.com.au/mysterious‐ancient‐cemetery‐in‐egypt‐could‐contain‐a‐million‐mummies‐12aaq7.)

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Mysterious ancient cemetery in Egypt could contain a million mummies

 

    A mysterious ancient cemetery in Egypt could contain more than a million mummified human remains, archaeologists have claimed.

   Around 1,700 bodies have so far been uncovered at the Fag el‐Gamous (Way of the Water Buffalo) site, around 60 miles south of Cairo. But experts believe that countless more are contained in the burial ground.

    “We are fairly certain we have over a million burials within this cemetery. It's large, and it's dense,” said project director Kerry Muhlestein, an associate professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University (BYU), which has been examining the site for around 30 years.

    They were placed there between the 1st and the 7th centuries AD, but the scale of the site has left many baffled.

    A nearby village has been deemed too small to warrant such a large cemetery, while the closest major settlements had their own burial grounds.

    “It's hard to know where all these people were coming from,” Professor Muhlestein told Live Science.

    Another interesting find was that the corpses appeared to be grouped together by hair colour, with one section containing the remains of those with blonde hair and another for those with red hair.

    The bodies, which included a man of more than seven feet in height, are thought to be of ordinary citizens, rather than the royalty found at many famous Egyptian sites. They were not buried in coffins, according to Muhlestein, and were in fact mummified not by design but by the arid natural environment.

    “The people in the cemetery represent the common man. They are the average people who are usually hard to learn about because they are not very visible in written sources. A lot of their wealth, or the little that they had, was poured into these burials.”

    His team discovered objects including glassware, jewellery and linen. The findings were presented to the Scholars Colloquim at the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities in Toronto last month.

The Telegraph, London.

(http://www.traveller.com.au/mysterious‐ancient‐cemetery‐in‐egypt‐could‐contain‐a‐million‐mummies‐12aaq7.)

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Police in England and Wales consider making misogyny a hate crime

Mark Townsend

September 10, 2016    

 

    Police forces across England and Wales are considering expanding their definition of hate crime to include misogyny (hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women, or prejudice against women) after an experiment in one city that saw more than 20 investigations launched in two months.

   The initial success of Nottingham’s crackdown against sexist abuse has drawn national interest after the city’s police revealed that they investigated a case of misogyny every three days during July and August, the first months to see specially trained officers targeting behaviour ranging from street harassment to unwanted physical approaches. 

    Several other forces have confirmed they are sending representatives to Nottingham this month to discuss the introduction of misogyny as a hate crime. Police and campaigners said the initial figures were broadly in line with other categories of hate crime such as Islamophobia and antisemitism but were likely to rise significantly as awareness increased.

      Dave Alton, the hate crime manager for Nottingham police, said: “The number of reports we are receiving is comparable with other, more established, categories of hate crime. We have received numerous reports and have been able to provide a service to women in Nottinghamshire who perhaps would not have approached us six months ago. The reality is that all of the reports so far have required some form of police action.”

 (www.theguardian.com. Adaptado)

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Al Capone

 

    Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become themost infamous gangster in American history. In 1920 during the height of Prohibition, Capone’s multi-million dollar Chicago operation in bootlegging, prostitution and gambling dominated the organized crime scene. Capone was responsible for many brutal acts of violence, mainly against other gangsters. The most famous of these was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929, in which he ordered the assassination of seven rivals. Capone was never indicted for his racketeering but was finally brought to justice for income-tax evasion in 1931. After serving six-and-a-half years, Capone was released. He died in 1947 in Miami. Capone’s life captured the public imagination, and his gangster persona has been immortalized in the many movies and books inspired by his exploits.

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