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A pinch of salt.(DETAILS: Good Health & Good Living)
The Middle East
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June 1, 2009|
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Throughout history, salt has played an influential role in the economic, social and political development of many civilisations. Wars have been fought over salt, which has also been used as a currency and is still used today among the nomads of Ethiopia's Danakil Plains. This plentiful commodity is an essential element to life, we could not survive without it.
The human body requires salt to function properly. Salt, or more precisely sodium, is required to regulate fluid balance in the body. Sodium is a constituent of salt; it makes ...
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Francisco Solano Lopez and the ruination of Paraguay; honor and egocentrism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 9780742537552 Francisco Solano Lopez and the ruination of Paraguay; honor and egocentrism. Saeger...history, Lehigh U.) present a political biography of Francisco Solano Lopez (1826-1870), the Paraguayan dictator reviled by his contemporaries...
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The Eliza Lynch Story: Three very different books recall the Paraguayan War.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Newsweek
; ...centered on the dictator Francisco Solano Lopez and his scheming mistress...in the first sentence: "Francisco Solano Lopez put his penis inside Eliza...and the beginning of Francisco Solano Lopez's son and heir. The boat...
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More notes on a scandal ; Adored and vilified in equal measure, the lover of a doomed dictator is shown in a new light, writes Emily Hourican
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph
; ...controversial lover of the Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano Lopez, once said: "A simple recital of the facts is...beginnings, she became the life-long lover of Francisco Solano Lopez, Paraguayan dictator, and mother of seven of...
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The Main Chance; A real-life caudillo and his mistress help plunge a country into ruin.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...loyal to their flamboyant ruler, Francisco Solano Lopez, even as they died in heaps...the male population, including Lopez. His Irish mistress, Ella Lynch...beautiful and misguided, there was a Francisco Solano Lopez who was cruel and ambitious...
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Latin Americas total war: Peter H. Wilson revisits the War of the Triple Alliance, Latin America's bloodiest conflict.(Chronology)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Triple Alliance of 1864-70, or Lopez' War, is virtually unknown outside...mistress of the Paraguayan president. Francisco Solano Lopez (1826-70), and the subject...or military strongmen, of whom Lopez was one of the most colourful...
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The Quest for the Quick War;We All Want One. It Never Happens
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Alliance, also known as the Paraguayan War or the Lopez War. This last denotes Francisco Solano Lopez, dictator of Paraguay, a corpulent man with...troops out of Brazil and gradually wore down the Lopez forces in a long war of attrition. Through...
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The general and the courtesan Anne Chisholm discovers how an Irish beauty of mysterious origins became the first lady of Paraguay in the 19th century
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...affections to a young South American, Francisco Solano Lopez, the son of the President of Paraguay. Lopez, a general from the age of 18, was in...she was up to or what she really felt for Lopez and his remote, violent backwater of a...
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LAUDED NOVEL ABOUT DICTATOR BRINGS MOSTLY WELCOME REWARDS.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...and mind - of Paraguay's onetime dictator, Francisco Solano Lopez, or Franco. To best capture the horror of the...interesting thing to do. "I looked at the life of Francisco Solano Lopez, the history of his blind ambition, arrogance...
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Selling sex up the river
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...dressmaker, is intent on pleasuring Francisco Solano Lopez, a visiting South American with...prudent marriage. When she meets Lopez money `was running through her...or his throat, or his mouth'. Lopez, tiny and intense with wandering...
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Cork's queen of Paraguay
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times
; ...attention of the rich and powerful Francisco Solano Lopez, son of the dictator of Paraguay...as a form of prostitution. When Lopez brought his lover to his homeland...years Eliza gave birth to seven of Lopez's children. In addition to her...
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