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Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization, O.I.P.C., ICPO) was founded in Austria in 1923 to facilitate cross-border police cooperation. The word 'Interpol', contraction of 'international police', was chosen in 1946 as the telegraphic address.
Interpol is the world's third largest international organization, after the United Nations and FIFA, with 186 member countries financed by annual contributions of about €41.7 million from its member countries.
It was located in Germany from 1942 to 1946, and its staff and facilities were used as an information gathering unit for the Gestapo. After World War II, the agency was reconstituted and headquartered in Paris. Today the organization is headquartered in Lyon, France.
The United Nations recognized Interpol as an intergovernmental organization in 1971.
Its principal services are to provide its member countries with information on the whereabouts of international criminals, to held seminars on crime detection science, and to facilitate the apprehension of criminals.
The ancient Egyptians were the first to use urine to determine pregnancy. To this end they moistened the wheat seeds with urine, and the germination was the equivalent of today’s two stripes (or a plus sign). Testing of this theory in 1960s proved that the urine of pregnant women did indeed promote growth most of the times.
In the 1890s the scientists suggested that certain organs of human body secrete fluids that influence the workings of a human. English physiologist Ernest Henry Starling named these fluids "hormones", after the Greek word hormon meaning "that which sets in motion".
However, the hormone that can be found in a pregnant woman's urine and blood and is detected by today’s pregnancy tests was discovered only in the 1920s by German scientists. Selmar Aschheim and Bernhard Zondek introduced testing which identified the presence of hCG in urine in 1928. To test for pregnancy they injected an immature female mouse with woman’s urine. In the case of pregnancy, the mouse’s ovary would show an estrous reaction (be in heat) despite its immaturity.
The most telephone numbers we see in the US television shows, movies, and fiction literary start with 555. These are fictitious numbers used to prevent prank calls to real people as there are many cases of people calling the numbers seen in the movies.
A demonstrative example of this situation is with the film Bruce Almighty. The makers of the movie chose not to use the prefix, and people whose phone numbers matched one mentioned in the film received many calls from callers asking for "God".
There are real numbers with prefix 555, but numbers 555-0100 through 555-0199 were specifically reserved for fictional use some years ago. Recent films, however, do not always heed the limits, and some producers even acquire actual telephone numbers solely for the purpose of using them in the movie or on TV.
The Statue of Liberty officially known as the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World was a gift of friendship from France in recognition of the friendship established during the American Revolution.
The statue dedicated on October 28, 1886 was a joint effort between America and France. It was agreed upon that the American people were to build the pedestal, and the French people were responsible for the Statue and its assembly in the United States. In both countries various forms of entertainment and lotteries were organized to raise funds.
In America, fund raising for the pedestal was going particularly slowly, and Joseph Pulitzer (who established the Pulitzer Prize) used his newspaper to criticize both the rich and the middle class who failed to finance and donate. Pulitzer's campaign was a success, and it also helped to promote his newspaper adding about 50,000 subscribers in the course of the statue campaign effort.
Garlic is a member of the onion family that has been used throughout the history of many cultures for both culinary and medicinal purposes. It is believed that garlic originates from Central Asia.
Garlic is known for its distinctive odor, and researches believe that this odor evolved as a defensive mechanism to protect the plant from birds, insects, and worms. Garlic is sometimes grown among flowers or vegetables to protect them from being attacked by pests.
Garlic emits sharp flavor only when it is broken by chopping, chewing, or crushing, due to the chemicals created when the plant's cells are damaged. When eaten in considerable quantity, garlic may be strongly evident for up to about 8 hours in both the eater’s breath and sweat. This is because garlic's strong smelling sulfur compounds are metabolized forming allyl methyl sulfide that cannot be digested and is passed into the blood.
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