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'The Conjuring' home being sold for $1.2 million as one of 'most well-known haunted houses' in U.S.

The colonial Rhode Island home that was the subject of 2013 hit horror film "The Conjuring" is on th...

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Japan’s unknown indigenous cuisine

On a crisp autumn morning in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, Sachiko Hoshizawa was meticulous...

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Rethinking the Role of Cooperatives in African Development

AbstractIn their search for a new development paradigm, many African governments and international organi...

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In Iceland, food is a challenge, not a meal

Article continues belowThe snow drifted high around the little outbuilding of a restaurant I was in,...

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Russia’s strange bread-sniffing ritual

“Somebody in Bristol started making a vodka called Novichok ,” said our host, Natasha Ward, faux-sca...

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What Is Passover?

What is Passover?Passover is one of the most important holidays in the Jewish calendar. It's an eight...

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Cracking India’s mystifying ‘nod code’

Article continues belowIn Thanjavur city, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, street markets are...

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The Apparition of Fading Apartheid: Racialized Vision, Khaya Mthethwa, and Idols SA

AbstractThis essay examines the first black winner in 2012 on Idols SA , Khaya Mthethwa (Appendix 1)...

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Making Contact: The Photographer's Interface with the World

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a key twentieth-century cultural theorist, has been influential in vari...

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Why Are Some Adults Really Afraid of Ghosts?

Have you ever been home alone and felt certain — certain — that someone was watching you? Afraid to...

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Tasmania’s ruggedly beautiful quarantine site

When World War One broke out in 1914, the German crew of the SS Oberhausen were declared “enemy alie...

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Iran’s fascinating way to tell fortunes

Article continues belowI was sauntering about the foothills of the mountains in Tehran with my friend...

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How televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker became an unlikely ally in the AIDS crisis

On Nov. 15, 1985, just two months after President Ronald Reagan finally uttered the word “AIDS” publ...

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Jackfruit: the ‘vegan sensation’ that saved Sri Lanka

My mother grew up in a house of eight people in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, 100km north-east of Colombo....

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What did the ancient Romans eat?

It's sunset in Rome, outside the city walls. Golden light filters through umbrella pines and casts its...

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The Danish Girl (2015) and the De/Construction of Gender Identity

By and large, today’s Western audience is unlikely to be roused by the story told in The Danish Girl...

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How Iceland recreated a Viking-age religion

Priest Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson rummaged around in his blue woollen robe and fished out two cans of war...

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The tree that changed the world map

Where to see the rare cinchona treeManú National Park , Peru : A haven of biodiversity, the Unesco n...

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Why We Love Blood-Curdling Screams

Of all the sounds humans produce, nothing captures our attention quite like a good scream .They're a...

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Africa’s most misunderstood country?

Article continues belowA side of Sudan that's rarely seen (Credit: Arterra/Getty)For travellers, Sud...

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