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A STUDY says the effects of childhood bullying in late adulthood, is adding to the growing body of evidence on the persistent and pervasive social, physical, and psychological effects of bullying. At age 50, people who were frequent victims of childhood bullying remained at increased risk of mental disorders such as depression and anxiety.
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VIOLENCE against women in Papua New Guinea begins in the home. With regard to intimate partner violence, according to a 1992 report produced by the Constitutional Law Reform Commission, two thirds of married women in PNG had been hit by their husbands. An academic study conducted in 2009 shared similar findings, noting that 65.3 per cent of the interviewed women were survivors of domestic violence.
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WONDER if the rule on disturbance in a neighbourhood in the form of noise especially from music does exist? And who is supposed to enforce it, police or city authorities?
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DESPITE being the last digit to come into use in the numerical system, the zero plays a central role in mathematics. During the 2nd century CE, Ptolemy began using a small circle with a long bar above it to symbolise zero. Because it was used alone, not just as a placeholder, this Hellenistic zero was perhaps the first documented use of a number zero in the Old World. Four centuries later, an Indian mathematician wrote a book of rules governing the use of the zero.
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WRITTEN and composed by French army officer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792, La Marseillaise was adopted in 1795 as France’s first anthem. Although it was then banned by Napoleon I, Louis XVIII, and Napoleon III, it was restored as France’s national anthem in 1879. The evocative lyrics and recognizable tune of La Marseillaise have led to its use as a revolutionary anthem and have inspired many pieces of classical music and pop culture.
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Liberation Day, or Liberty Day, is a public holiday commemorating the military coup on this day in 1974 that removed Marcello Caetano (1906-1980) from power, reflecting the opposition of many Portuguese to their government’s military policies and wars in Africa.
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ANCIENT primates may have travelled from South America to North America about 21 million years ago — back when the continents were separated by 100 miles of water. The swashbuckling monkeys are reported in a study published Wednesday in Nature magazine
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QUOTE of the day: If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth. – Albert Eientein
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