Re Great Malvern Priory

Spas and sensibilities: Darwin at Malvern.

In 1842 when Captain Richard Claridge first described a new form of hydrotherapy to British patients' there were only two places in England that could be visited in order to see what the system offered.2 Ten years later, however, despite scandals about the dramatic death of at least one aristocratic patient,3 there were 24 water-cure establishments in Britain and Ireland, many of which were fam...

The Re-emergence of the Great Mother Goddess

Today, great interest in the Ancient Goddess cult is still being revived. With the way the Goddess manifests herself as symbolizing an earthly and cosmic source to the universe, some women have found refuge in the symbolical image of the Mother Goddess. The impetus towards the Goddess movement came from an archaeologist, Marija Gimbutas. With the return of the Goddess, the new power of the femi...

DISH at Merton Priory: evidence for a "new" occupational disease?

Although the development of noticeable lines on the face is usually associated with smoking, this is not always so. Although no such persons were encountered during this survey, non-smokers are occasionally encountered with lined faces suggestive of smoker's face. These people tend to be women and although their faces are lined, their complexions are usually sufficiently clear to suggest that i...

Great Lakes Sediments: Contamination, Toxicity and Beneficial Re-Use

Formulating Priory of Information Quality Criteria on the Blog

The World Wide Web (WWW) has become one of the fastest growing electronic information sources. In the Web, people are engaging in interaction with more and more diverse information than ever before, so that the problem of information quality is more significant in the Web than any other information system, especially considering the rate of growth in the number of documents. Meanwhile new facil...