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Stories about: heroine

Joan of Arc Relics, a Hoax: They Come from an Egyptian Mummy This is a figure that entered from legend into literature and media. The 19-year-old illiterate farm girl from Lorraine (northeastern France) is the most famous heroine of France. She led the French, while disguised herself as a man, to several victories over the English troops (notable the conquest of Orleans) durin... 5 April 2007 04:08 GMT Vulnerability to Drugs Is Genetic Genes dictates everything in you: from height, eye and hair color to the way you smile or grin. And not only. A recent research made on rats by a team at Cambridge University points that physical differences in the brain dictated by genes may rise the chances of an individual to fall to drugs consume. Variations in t... 3 March 2007 07:13 GMT