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Bravo, Lettuce, and Lungfuls of Hope: The Curious Tale of Puzant Torigian’s Herbal Cigarette Crusade
In 1997, amidst a storm of lawsuits, congressional hearings, and public outrage against the tobacco industry, an odd little product...
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The Bizarrely Successful History of People Mailing Themselves in Boxes
Long before the age of biometric passports and full-body scanners, some travellers took a more... unconventional route to their...
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The Real Story Behind The Exorcist: The Strange Case of Ronald Hunkeler
On a quiet suburban street in St. Louis, Missouri, a red-brick Colonial house on Roanoke Drive stands bathed in the mundane charm of...
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Take The Utterly Ridiculous Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964)
In his 1938 novel The Unvanquished , William Faulkner portrays Colonel Sartoris as a figure emblematic of post-Civil War Southern...
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The Monk That Lived For 82 Years And Died Without Ever Seeing A Woman.
It’s one of those stories that sounds more like legend than fact, yet tucked away in the quiet, windswept monasteries of Mount Athos, it...
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