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10. Bayer Heroin



A bottle of Bayer heroin. Between 1890 to 1910 heroin was marketed as a substitute non-addictive to morphine and cough medicine for children.


9. Coca wine



The wine of coca Metcalf was one of a large amount of cocaine-containing wines available. All claimed medicinal effects, but they were undoubtedly consumed by his "recreational" value too.



8. Wine Mariani



Wine Mariani (1865) was the main coca wine of your time. Pope Leo XIII purportedy carried a bottle of Wine Mariani with him and awarded its creator, Angelo Mariani with a gold medal.



7. Paperweight



A paperweight promotional CF Boehringer & Soehne (Mannheim, Germany), "the world's largest manufacturers of quinine and cocaine." This manufacturer was proud of its leading position in the market for cocaine.



6. Maltine



This coca wine was made by Maltine Manufacturing Company of New York. The optimal dosage says: "A bowl filled with, or immediately after, meals. Children in proportion. "


5. Glyco-Heroin



Advertisement heroine of Martin H. Smith Company, New York. Heroin was widely used not only as an analgesic but also as a remedy for asthma, cough and pneumonia. Mixing heroin with glycerin (and often sugar and spices) made the opioid bitter more palatable for oral consumption.



4. Opium for Asthma



This National Vaporizer Vapor-OL was chosen "for asthma and other spasmodic affections." The volatile liquid was placed in a pan and heated by a kerosene lantern.

3. Tablet Cocaine (1900)



These tablets cocaine were "indispensable for singers, teachers and speakers. They also soothed a sore throat and gave an effect "encouraging" for these professionals to reach the maximum of its performance.


2."Drops of cocaine for toothache - Instantaneous Healing"



Drop cocaine for toothache (1885) were popular for children. Not only had the pain, but also enhanced the "mood" of users.


1. Opium for newborn babies



Do you think our modern life is comfortable? Previously to still-born babies was not necessary a great effort of parents, but opium.

This bottle of paregoric (sedative) of Stickney and Poor was a mixture of opium alcohol that was distributed in the same way that the spices for which the company was known.

"Dose - [For children] five days, 3 drops. Two weeks, 8 drops. Five years, 25 drops. Adults, a spoonful. "

The product was very powerful, and contained 46% alcohol.

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The truth behind Google Maps...

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How Things Change in 10 Years?

A special series of NASA satellite images documenting how our world—forests, oceans, human landscapes, has changed during the previous decade.

The Aral Sea Disappears

In a series of photos taken by NASA, you can observe the dramatic disappearance of the Aral Sea in a relatively short period - between 2000 and 2009. NASA has been able to capture the disappearance of the Aral Sea from space. In the 1960’s Russia diverted water from several major rivers to irrigation projects for growing cotton and other crops. The result has been the complete destruction of one what was once the fourth largest inland sea in the world.
NASA’s ability to document this entirely unprecedented event is not only fascinating, but it’s a lesson to how quickly entire ecosystems (and the societies that rely on them) can collapse. The Aral sea was once surrounded by villages that relied on the Aral seas fisheries. Those towns are now all but deserted, and fishing boats sit on dry land.


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Urbanization of Dubai


To expand the possibilities for beachfront tourist development, Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, undertook a massive engineering project to create hundreds of artificial islands along its Persian Gulf coastline. Built from sand dredged from the sea floor and protected from erosion by rock breakwaters, the islands were shaped into recognizable forms, including two large palm trees.
In these false-color images, bare ground appears brown, vegetation appears red, water appears dark blue, and buildings and paved surfaces appear light blue or gray.


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Amazon Deforestation


The state of Rondônia in western Brazil is one of the most deforested parts of the Amazon. In the past three decades, clearing and degradation of the state’s original 208,000 square kilometers of forest (about 51.4 million acres) has been rapid: 4,200 square kilometers cleared by 1978; 30,000 by 1988; and 53,300 by 1998.


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20 Hilarious School Exam Answers

The following questions were set in last year’s GCSE examination in England.

These are genuine answers from 16 year olds, not very bright, but entertaining, 16 year olds.


Q. Name the four seasons
A. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar

Q. Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink
A. Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists

Q. How is dew formed?
A. The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire

Q. What causes the tides in the oceans?
A. The tides are a fight between the earth and the moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins the fight

Q. What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on?
A. If you are buying a house they will insist that you are well endowed

Q. In a democratic society, how important are elections ?
A. Very important. Sex can only happen when a male gets an election

Q. What are steroids ?
A. Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs

Q. What happens to your body as you age ?
A. When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental

Q. What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty
A. He says goodbye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery

Q. Name a major disease associated with cigarettes
A. Premature death

Q. What is artificial insemination ?
A. When the farmer does it to the bull instead of the cow

Q. How can you delay milk turning sour ?
A. Keep it in the cow

Q. How are the main 20 parts of the body categorised (e.g. The abdomen)
A. The body is consisted into 3 parts – the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels: A, E, I, O and U

Q. What is the fibula?
A. A small lie

Q. What is the most common form of birth control?
A. Most people prevent contraception by wearing a condominium

Q. Give the meaning of the term ‘Caesarean section’?
A. The caesarean section is a district in Rome

Q. What is a seizure?
A. A Roman Emperor.

Q. What is a terminal illness?
A. When you are sick at the airport.

Q. What does the word ‘benign’ mean?
A. Benign is what you will be after you be eight

Q. What is a turbine?
A. Something an Arab or Shreik wears on his head

Paranormal Activity: A horror movie?

I had the opportunity to watch last weekend the movie Paranormal Activity and I do not became so irritate with a movie since the Blair Witch Project, and this is rare to happen. The most irritating isn´t the weak script or the terrible interpretation ... the really annoying is all the hype around a movie that not scares me, not even 20 years ago.

Our generation had the chance to grow up watching true horror classics like Rosemary's Baby, The Shining and The Exorcist. What references this new generation have? Paranormal Activity and their "scary" shadows and flying sheets? Pffff ....

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... we have Christmas.