Mycobacterium leprea‚ causes the virus. Mycobacterium leprea is very similar to the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. The reason Leprosy is also known as Hansen’s disease‚ is because it was first identified in 1874 by a Norwegian physician named Gerhard Henrik Armeur Hansen. Leprosy appears in both the Old and New Testaments. In the bible Leprosy was not the disease that is recognized now‚ but as various physical conditions that were nothing like the disease. A punishment from God was what these
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Question 1 0 out of 5 points Televangelist Jerry Falwell said that God’s anger with feminism led to the destruction of the World Trade Center. Given Falwell’s closeness to God‚ we have no alternative than to blame the feminists for this atrocity. Answer Selected Answer: Ignorance Correct Answer: Authority Question 2 0 out of 5 points No mathematician has ever been able to demonstrate the truth of the variants of the Goldberg conjecture‚ so they cannot all be true. Answer Selected
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Is breed-specific discrimination and legislation against dogs really necessary? Many different breeds of dogs are discriminated against simply because of stigmas behind their breeds. Breed-specific legislation applies only to dogs that happen to look a certain way‚ not to any and all dogs. These types of legislation do not take into account how the owners have raised‚ trained‚ or managed their dogs. Legislation of this kind does not take into account the dog’s actual behavior. Imagine being a pet
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The Armenian Genocide is a period from 1915 and continuing into the 1920s that describes the mass killing of over one million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire‚ which is known today as Turkey (Bloxham 141). The genocide “officially” started on April 14‚ 1915‚ a day in which “prominent members of the Ottoman Armenian community were incarcerated en masse in Constantinople” (Bloxham 141). This began the eventual surge of imprisonment and killings of Armenian men‚ and deportation‚ rape‚ and killings of
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Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince killing 316‚000 and affecting millions of residents. 1.5 million people were displaced and approximately 250‚000 residences and 30‚000 commercial buildings were severely damaged. The first quake registered a 7.0 on the Richter scale and shortly after was followed by two aftershocks of 5.9 and 5.5. The aftershocks continued numerous days after the initial quake‚ one hitting on the 20th of January at the town
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Southern Leyte that caused widespread damage and loss of life. Mining operations was also considered one of the causes of this landslide. The deadly landslide followed a ten-day period of heavy rains and a minor earthquake of magnitude 2.6 on the Richter scale. The official death toll was 1‚126. San Roque Dam flooding The giant dams are a clear and present danger to lives and property during the rainy season like the San Roque Dam. The San Roque Dam still had excess water of around 100 million
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Japanese Earthquake of 2011 Japanese Earthquake of 2011 What? An earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter Scale struck off Japans North-East coast‚ about 250 miles (400km) from Tokyo at a depth of 20 miles. When? The magnitude 9.0 earthquake happened at 2:46pm (local time) on Friday March 11th‚ 2011. Where? The earthquake occurred 250 miles off the North East Coast of Japans main island Honshu. Why? Japan is located on the eastern edge of the Eurasian Plate. The Pacific Plate‚ which is
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and how to bring back the trust that was lost due to fraud in the markets. When it comes to wire fraud‚ there are a couple of main players from Enron. The key players from Enron who committed wire fraud are Timothy Belden‚ Andrew Fastow‚ Jeffrey Richter‚Michael Kopper‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ and most of all Enron trader’s in general. By knowing that wire fraud is "anyone who uses interstate wire communication facilities in carrying out a scheme to defraud."(Lectric Law Library)‚ and that shareholder fraud
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once she speaks of the “reparations” imposed by the allies on the Germans after Germany’s defeat in WW1. Mark’s begins her article with the discussion of a session in December of 1968 between the American Historical Association “AHA” . Professor Gerhard Weinberg‚ of the AHA says that “the entire history of German reparations needs to be restudied” (356). Throughout the post-war world‚ everyone was quite mesmerized by the 132 billion marks fee that was “brutally” imposed on the Germans‚ when in fact
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A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water‚ generally an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices)‚ landslides‚ glacier calvings‚ meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.[3] Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves‚ because their wavelength is far longer. Rather than appearing
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