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  2. History of diabetes - Wikipedia

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    The term diabetes traces back to Demetrius of Apamea (1st century BC). For a long time, the condition was described and treated in traditional Chinese medicine as xiāo kě (消渴; "wasting-thirst"). Physicians of the medieval Islamic world, including Avicenna, have also written on diabetes. Early accounts often referred to diabetes as a ...

  3. List of historical films set in Asia - Wikipedia

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    An epic war film detailing General Antonio Luna's leadership of the Filipino army during the Philippine–American War. Aguila: 1980: 1899–1945: Philippines: Touted at the time as "the biggest event in local movie history" and "the biggest Filipino film ever made". Tirad Pass: The Story of Gen. Gregorio del Pilar: 1997: December 2, 1899 ...

  4. List of 2016 films based on actual events - Wikipedia

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    150 Milligrams (French: La Fille de Brest) (2016) – French biographical drama film based on the true story of French pulmonologist Irène Frachon who became noted for her investigations of the serious side effects and deaths attributed to the diabetes drug Mediator, produced by French manufacturer Laboratoires Servier [4]

  5. List of films featuring diabetes - Wikipedia

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    The French drama film is based on the real-life French pulmonologist Irène Frachon who fought between 2009 and 2011 to reveal that a diabetes drug was life-threatening. [5] The Accountant: 2016: A film about a forensic accountant who is also an assassin. In the film, an assassination victim dies by insulin overdose to protect his family from ...

  6. List of Hyderabadi-language films - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the Deccani film industry's movies filmed in Hyderabadi Urdu and based on Hyderabadi culture. The movie does not need to be produced in Hyderabad. Films produced about Hyderabad should include words that are typically spoken by Hyderabadi working-class people.

  7. What the Ancients Did for Us - Wikipedia

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    The Arab and Muslim world has had a profound and lasting influence on our life today, the list is long and full of surprises, but perhaps the most important thing that the Islamic Empire did for us is preserve, refine and improve all the knowledge left by the scholars of the ancients, and without that work by the Muslim scholars all of that knowledge might have been lost and our lives much the ...

  8. Shama (magazine) - Wikipedia

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    Shama was a monthly Indian Urdu-language film and literary magazine published from 1939 to 1999. [1] Considered the world's biggest chain of Urdu-language magazines at the time, [2] the Shama group published several other famous magazines and digests including Sushama (Hindi), Khilauna, Dost aur Dosti, Bano, Sushmita, Mujrim, Doshi, A'inah, Shabistan and Rasia Kashidakari. [1]

  9. List of The Nature of Things episodes - Wikipedia

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    The Australians have since built an airstrip, a hospital, schools, a hotel and other permanent buildings there, but the Mendi have kept their culture intact. A CBC film crew directed by Nancy Archibald has recorded some of the ancient culture and lifestyle of the Mendi and the results are presented in this special one-hour documentary. [193]