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upallnight.tokyo “There’s something special about Japan,” intimated the old man, drawing my curiosity by letting the statement hang. “I’d like to know about that.” I eventually prompted after an extended pause, leaning in. “Well, you see, Japan has four seasons.” And with that, he sat back. The
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Leighan M Renaud, Florian Stadtler, Simon Potter University of Bristol Andrew Dix Loughborough University Dominic Broomfield-McHugh University of Sheffield Jane O’Connor Birmingham City University Madeleine S Killacky Bangor University We have covered a lot of new releases this year but these seven really impressed our experts. There’s
Lisa Smithstead Swansea University Vivien Leigh’s achievements in cinema were extraordinary. Known for her glamour and beauty, the actress rose from a bit-part player to become one of the most famous women in Hollywood, playing Scarlet O’Hara in Gone with the Wind in 1939. And November 5
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Harry Palmer After the American War of Independence was won in 1783, when Benjamin Franklin walked out of Independence Hall in Philadelphia after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?” Franklin supposedly responded, “A republic, if you can keep
Catherine Wynne University of Hull Agatha Christie published The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb in September 1923, almost a year after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Her Hercule Poirot short story drew inspiration from the sensationalised folklore of the “mummy’s curse”
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Barry Markovsky University of South Carolina theconversation.com Is it possible for there to be ghosts? – Madelyn, age 11, Fort Lupton, Colorado Certainly, lots of people believe in ghosts – a spirit left behind after someone who was alive has died. In a 2021 poll of 1,000 American adults, 41%
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Diana Blaine USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Death may be inevitable and universal, but the ways people deal with it most certainly are not. Whether doing Tibetan Buddhist sky burials, attending a graveside service dressed in black or putting one’s parents’ ashes in the sacred Ganges,
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Joseph Pronechen Joseph Pronechen is staff writer with the National Catholic Register since 2005 and before that a regular correspondent for the paper. His articles have appeared in a number of national publications including Columbia magazine, Soul, Faith and Family, Catholic Digest, Catholic Exchange, and Marian Helper. ncregister.com Did
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Haley Kynefin Haley Kynefin is a writer and independent social theorist with a background in behavioral psychology. She left academia to pursue her own path integrating the analytical, the artistic and the realm of myth. Her work explores the history and sociocultural dynamics of power. brownstone.org Welcome to The
