» Archive for June, 2011
30Jun History of plastic surgery in India
“Lives of great men all remind us,We can make our lives sublimeAnd departing leave behind us,Footprints on the sands of time.”-H.W.Longfellow.The earliest replantations were performed by Lord Shiva by attaching an elephant’s head on his son’s body and by Ashwini Kumars who successfully replanted the severed head of Yagna. Therefore the history of plastic surgery [...]
29Jun Mark Rothko
Childhood Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz, Mark Rotkovich) was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian Empire (now Daugavpils, Latvia). His father, Jacob Rothkowitz, was a pharmacist and an intellectual, who provided his children with a secular and political, rather than religious, upbringing. Unlike Jews in most cities of Czarist Russia, those in Dvinsk had been spared [...]
28Jun American Criminal Justice System : Exploring `Standard of Proof’
Within the context of the American justice system, the idea of Standard of Proof possesses special importance. Referring to the level of proof necessary for a prosecution to fulfil its burden of proof obligation, it supplies the guidelines for the determination of guilt/innocence in both civil and criminal law circumstances. Two of the three standards [...]