Monthly Archives: November 2021

LEO KANNER AND HANS ASPERGER

Autism was first discovered in 1943 by a child psychiatrist named Leo Kanner from Baltimore who had 11 unusual patients – children who inhabited private worlds, ignoring the people around them. They could amuse themselves for hours with little rituals … Continue reading

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HENRY CAVENDISH & PAUL DIRAC

HENRY CAVENDISH (1731-1810) Every evening in the last years of the eighteenth century, at precisely the same hour, a solitary figure stepped forth from the most unusual house on Clapham Common to take his nightly constitutional. To avoid the prying … Continue reading

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EGYPT – Matruh & Lower Egypt

Day 7 On Sunday October 31, I was up at 4:45 to catch the 06:30 bus to Siwa Oasis. It was a 17-minute walk to Cairo Gateway ((Torgoman) Bus Station. The bus line was Western Delta to Marsa Matruh (5 … Continue reading

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