Morphine is an opioid medication often used to relieve severe pain in cancer and some other diseases. When prescribed by a physician appropriately for relief of pain, it is a blessing to those whose symptoms are relieved, and to the families of those patients who had suffered watching their loved one in agony.
Earliest sign of human habitation in Canada may have been found. Possible 13,800-year-old fishing weir found in ocean near B.C.'s Haida Gwaii islands. By Dene Moore, The Canadian Press Posted: Sep 23, 2014 10:46 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 23, 2014 6:01 PM ET.
Cradle of Civilization. The southern part of the modern country of Iraq is called the Cradle of Civilization.. The worlds first cities, writing systems, and large-scale government developed there. Civilization is a complex way of life that came about as people began to develop urban settlements. The earliest civilizations developed after 3000 BCE, when the rise of agriculture allowed people to have surplus food and economic stability. Agricultural populations advanced beyond village life, and many people no longer had to practice farming at all. Civilizations first appeared in Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq