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Hanukkah, or Chanukkah, the Jewish festival of re-dedication, sometimes known as the festival of lights, overlaps with Christmas thi...
The human race has been celebrating the holiday of Christmas for a very long time - about a thousand years, actually. Of course, no matter what time period in h...
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Kwanzaa is the newest addition to the winter holidays. It was created fifty years ago, and since it's so new, it's often misunders...
On January 16th, 2014, as Hiroo Onoda exhaled his last breath, his battle with pneumonia ended with a heart attack. After 91 years he’d fought many battles. Wha...
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We all know Socrates as the classical Greek philosopher who is credited with being one of the main founders of modern thought. However, Soc...
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Nothing says Christmas more than snow on the ground outside, a fire burning in the fireplace, a beautifully decorated Christmas tree,...
The world's oldest paycheck, which says the workers were paid in beer. Alcohol is integral to our existence as a species. Every culture, from tribes in the Ama...
Whether you love it or hate it, ventriloquism is something that is designed to entertain. Although today’s dummies are often held up in jest and humor, the figu...
Much of the traditional narrative of the human race as told by history textbooks is that we began as backwards, prejudiced people who lived in predominantly pat...
Say the word voodoo and you might conjure up any number of images. The act has become so entrenched in the dark arts that many of us fail to look at it any clos...
