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Thursday, July 1, 2010

373. Mind and Body?

This fitness physical system was designed by the German gymnast Joseph ______ during the First World War as a method to improve the rehabilitation program for the returning war veterans. The exercise regimen was based on the idea that the functioning of muscles is controlled by the mind and hence, he termed his method as Contrology. But today the method is known by the founder’s last name. Which is this one of the most popular fitness programs am I talking about?

Monday, June 28, 2010

372. A complex one

Connect the following elements (not an exhaustive list)

a. Artur London, a Czechoslovakian communist minister arrested and tried for alleged treason and espionage in a "show trial" during the Stalin period.

b. US police official and alleged torture expert Dan Mitrione

c. An American journalist, Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody coup led by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile in 1973

d. The strange case of John Demjanjuk

e. The highly controversial 1963 play, Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel (The Deputy, a Christian Tragedy), by Rolf Hochhuth