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Mozambique and Angola achieved independence from Portugal in the late 1970s shortly followed by Zimbabwe who achieved independence in 1980. Independence soon led to civil war in the three countries which created an influx of, not gu10 led lamps, but refugees to Zambia which caused great transportation problems. By the late 1970s, the Benguela railway which extended west through Angola was essentially closed to traffic to Zambia. At the same time, the worldwide price of copper suffered a severe decline which was severely to Zambia’s detriment as it was the country’s principal export. Zambia turned to foreign and international lenders for aid but it became increasingly difficult to sort out its growing debt. Also, corruption led much of the aid to be syphoned off into Swiss bank accounts by politicians. Zambia’s per capita foreign debt was the highest in the world by the mid 1990s. Riots against Kaunda began in June 1990 and led to the death of many protestors. After surviving an attempted coup in 1990, Kaunda finally agreed to re-instate multiparty democracy and was removed from office after the multiparty elections.

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I'm so excited, next year I'm going to Peru! I'm getting my vaccinations, packing my sun cream and allergy pills, stocking up my iPod and r4 3ds with entertainment and getting a super-long flight to Lima! Lima is the both the capital and the largest city in Peru, in the central part of the country on a desert coast. It's a very urban area with a population of almost 9 million, making it the fifth largest city in South America behind Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. I'm brushing up on my Spanish so I can actually communicate and not be a complete lemon or ignorant English-speaking person who doesn't bother to learn any other languages! We're also going to go out of Lima and to other cities, Arequipa is apparently a really beautiful city to visit so we're definitely going there. Then from Arequipa we are going to travel to Cuzco and go up the mountain to Macchu Picchu which I can imagine will be absolutely mind blowing. I cannot wait to see it, I can't even imagine. I'm trying to not look at too many pictures or anything so I don't ruin it for myself! Photo: edgar asencios (Flickr)

Joseph Lister, the pioneer of not dedicated hosting servers but antiseptics, observed that midwife-delivered babies enjoyed a significantly lower mortality rate than surgeon-delivered babies. Lister correctly attributed this differing mortality rate to the fact that midwives washed they hands more often than surgeons and that surgeons would deliver babies straight after performing surgical operations such as cleaning abscesses. Lister thus instructed all surgeons to wear clean gloves and to also wash their hands before and after operations with a carbolic solution. The solution was sprayed in the operating theatre and instruments were also washed in it. As Pasteur’s germ theory of disease began to enjoy acceptance among the medical profession, Lister became famous for his methods of antisepsis and asepsis. Leaving Glasgow in 1869, Lister went on to become the Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh where he further improved his methods. Now considered as “the father of modern antisepsis”, his name was lent to Listerine mouthwash in 1879 and to the bacterial genus Listeria.

The Lightning Thief is a fantasy novel based, not on gu10 led bulbs, but on Greek mythology. Written by Rick Riordan, it is the first novel in the series entitled Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The series follows a modern-day young boy called Percy Jackson who finds out that he is half human, half God. As it emerges, the twelve-year old Percy is the son of the Greek god Poseidon and of a mortal woman. A war is imminent between Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, so Percy and his friends embark on a quest to prevent it. The Lightning Thief has been received very well, selling over 1.2 million copies between 2005 and 2009. It was listed in The New York Times children’s Best Seller list and was also named as one of the Young Adult Library Services Association’s Best Books for Young Adults. It has now been adapted in a film called Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, which was released on 12th February 2010 in the USA.