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Thursday, May 5, 2016
Cinco De Mayo
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Cinco De Mayo, Spanish for May 5th, celebrates Mexico's unlikely victory over French forces in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It is not M...
Monday, October 5, 2015
Hinterkaifeck
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Hinterkaifeck was a small homestead 70 km north of Munich, Germany. It was a little ways from the main town of Kaifeck, thus the name Hinter...
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Night on Bald Mountain
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The only reason that anybody outside of Russian classical music aficionados know about this piece of haunting and dramatic music is because...
Monday, February 24, 2014
Mail Order Homes
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Mail Order Homes, also known as Kit Homes or Catalog Homes, were a type of housing popular in the first half of the 20th century. The most f...
Monday, January 20, 2014
Paul Bunyan
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There are many stories that involve Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack who is always accompanied by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox....
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Legend Tripping
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Legend Tripping, otherwise known as ostention, is a name that has been recently bestowed by folklorists and anthropologists on an adolescent...
Urban Legends Part Two
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Another urban legend from my youth was the Killer in the Backseat . One version of the story has a young woman getting into her car after s...
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