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Written by: The Conversation
Oct. 31, 2019
Day of the Dead might sound like a solemn affair, but Mexico’s famous holiday is actually a live ...
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Oct. 28, 2019
Did mass graves in the influenza pandemic help give rise to the living dead?
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Oct. 25, 2019
The oldest surviving animated feature was not made by Walt Disney, but by a German puppeteer nam ...
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Oct. 24, 2019
The media, police departments, and politicians began to tell a new kind of Halloween horror stor ...
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Oct. 23, 2019
Witch trials persecuted society’s most marginal members – particularly women.
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Oct. 23, 2019
The anticipation for pumpkin spice’s annual return can be explained by a psychological theory ca ...
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Oct. 22, 2019
Many of the modern-day practices of Halloween and even its name were influenced by Christianity
Written by: Jordan Liles Alex Kasprak
Oct. 11, 2019
Both The Epoch Times and The BL deny any connection whatsoever. Our report makes that a challeng ...
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Oct. 10, 2019
At a time when public debate around the world is suffering from a collision between facts and “a ...
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Oct. 9, 2019
Fears about the effects of recreational games on society as a whole are centuries old.
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Oct. 7, 2019
Accurate, consistent dietary advice seems increasingly hard to find.
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Oct. 6, 2019
Whether we love or hate to experience fear, it’s hard to deny that we certainly revere it – devo ...
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Oct. 3, 2019
Could everything we know and do one day be reproduced by a complicated enough computer program i ...
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Oct. 2, 2019
The Founders explained that impeachment was intended to have many important purposes, not just r ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 2, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump posted an inaccurate and misleading map of his 2016 election victory ...
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Oct. 2, 2019
Worried observers of politics have already asked whether the Electoral College will again delive ...
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Oct. 2, 2019
Perhaps it’s time to reconsider the journalistic value of live interviews – and return to a stan ...
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Oct. 2, 2019
If he’s kicked out, could he come back?
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Oct. 2, 2019
As the album celebrates its 50th anniversary, few may realize just how groundbreaking its tracks ...
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Sept. 30, 2019
In many instances, whistleblowers find the abusive power they have revealed turned against them, ...
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