Alternative medicine
Posted in Misc by sanela | Tags: alternative medicine, China, cure, East, Egypt, healing, Indonesia, methods, strangeAlternative medicine includes a huge range of treatments from simple acupuncture used in the West until very unusual methods of healing, such as eating raw fish and frogs, which are practiced in the eastern countries of our planet. According to the healers, alternative medicine can cure all diseases completely even AIDS. And when modern medicine says there’s nothing more that can be done, most patients turn to alternative medicine. Here are some of the most usual healing methods:
Early twentieth century in color by Albert Khan
Posted in Life by sanela | Tags: 20th century, Albert Khan, East, orientalism, photography, travel, worldAlbert Kahn was a banker and French philanthropist. He was born Abraham Kahn at Marmoutier, Bas-Rhin, France on 3 March 1860, into a Jewish family, one of 5 children of his parents, Louis and Babette Kahn. He died at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 14 November 1940,
In 1879 Kahn became a bank clerk in Paris, but studied for a degree in the evenings. His tutor was Henri Bergson, who remained his friend all his life. He graduated in 1881 and continued to mix in intellectual circles, making friends with Auguste Rodin and Mathurin Méheut. In 1892 Kahn became a principal associate of the Goudchaux Bank, which was regarded as one of most important financial houses of Europe.
In 1893 Kahn acquired a large property in Boulogne-Billancourt, where he established a unique garden containing a variety of garden styles including English, Japanese, a rose garden and a conifer wood. This became a meeting place for French and European intelligentsia until the 1930s when due to the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Kahn became bankrupt. At that time the garden was turned into a public park in which Kahn would still take walks. Kahn died during the Nazi occupation of France.
