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Yawning. We all do it and yet there's no set explanation on why we do it. And just as mysterious is that the act of yawning seems to be contagious. A new study looking at that issue has found that ...
The yawn reflex has long been observed to be contagious. In 1508, Erasmus wrote, "One man's yawning makes another yawn", [39] and the French proverbialized the idea to "Un bon bâilleur en fait bâiller sept" ('One good gaper makes seven others gape'). [40] Often, if one person yawns, this may cause another person to "empathetically" yawn. [23]
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Eiriz's career took a sharp turn by the end of the decade when her 1968 work Una tribuna para la paz democratica ("a platform for democratic peace") was deemed "defeatist" by the Cuban government, which effectively marked her as a dissident. [4]
Panama is considered the fourth oldest democracy in South America. [1] Political scientists such as Carlos Guevarra Mann have recognized the nascent political stability of the country, rating the current era of constitutional government as significantly better than the dictatorial regime it replaced, which lasted for more than two decades. [1]
The 1968 Panamanian coup d'état was the military coup that took place in the Republic of Panama on October 11, 1968, when the National Guard, led by Major Boris Martínez, Lieutenant Colonel Jose Humberto Ramos, Rubén Darío Paredes and other military officers overthrew President Arnulfo Arias, who was elected in the May 12 general election and assumed office on October 1.
The People's Party of Panama (Spanish: Partido del Pueblo de Panamá, PPP) is an unregistered communist party in Panama. It was founded on 4 April 1930 as the Communist Party of Panama (Partido Comunista de Panamá, PCP), after Panamanian communists broke away from the Labour Party. Early leaders of the PCP included Eliseo Echévez and ...