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The Skeletal Welsh Horse You Must Beat in a Battle of Rhymes
In the Welsh folkloric tradition of Mari Lwyd, a horse skull visits your home near Christmas, and you must best it in a challenge of rhymes.
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Trumped and Abandoned
In the season of Trump’s ascendancy, the cult of guns and the hate of Hillary were so often treated in public discourse as some new fever in the land, like Zika freshly arrived from the tropics. By Susan Faludi.
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Where Germans Make Peace with Their Dead
Through a practice that is part therapy and part séance, children of war come to terms with their history. By Burkhard Bilger.
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Dogs, monkeys, cats: 2,000-year-old pet cemetery uncovered in Egypt
A few animals still wore iron collars when they were laid to rest, and the graves of two young cats include ostrich-shell beads.
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I spent 5 years with some of Trump’s biggest fans. Here’s what they won’t tell you
How Donald Trump took a narrative of unfairness and twisted it to his advantage. By Arlie Russell Hochschild.
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Bringing the Drugstore Home: An Interview with Deanna Day
A ubiquitous element of our modern-day bathrooms, the medicine cabinet is also one of the home’s most particularized containers—stocked with substances and technologies used in healthcare and grooming, it functions both as personal pharmacy and private salon.
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Tobacco Factory Lectors
Factory lectors in a cigar factory entertained workers by reading books or newspapers aloud, often left-wing publications.
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Shanty Dreams
A Quest for the Forgotten Stories of the Tennessee River. By Clay Duda. (July 21, 2016)
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Trump: Tribune Of Poor White People
Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance explains what America doesn’t understand about the outsiders elites despise. By Rod Dreher. (July 22, 2016)
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Gucci apologizes for telling off Hong Kong shops selling luxury paper offerings to the dead.
The sudden apology was prompted by the subsequent backlash from the public after news of the warning letters spread, which saw them being criticized for being overzealous in protecting their brand.
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Horse racing rules engraved on 2,000-year-old inscription discovered in central Turkey
Horse racing rules engraved on 2,000-year-old inscription discovered in central Turkey
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Interviews with Self-Described 'Rednecks' and 'Hillbillies'
When city people throw around words like "redneck" or "hillbilly," they generally mean them as insults. But what do these words signify for the people living in central Appalachia?
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How the World’s Oldest Printed Board Game Rolled Propaganda into Play
Long before the era of Candy Crush and Neko Atsume, the games that captured our attention were often the ones that required just a board, a dice or two, and a handful of tokens.
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There's a Neolithic Sauna at Marden Henge!
An amazing discovery in Wiltshire is throwing a whole new light on the way we think henges might have been used in Neolithic Britain.
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Fetishizing family farms
History is nothing like the political mythology. By Gabriel Rosenberg.
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Swaddling – babies in a tight bind!
I thought the task of changing a baby’s nappy was pretty arduous, but recently I have been looking at the babies clothes from 300 years ago and I can only conclude that children and their carers nowadays have never had it so easy!
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Air France crew angry at order to wear headscarf in Iran
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The Hottest Music in China is About President Xi Jinping
Like "Hamilton" but...different.
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How Texting Helps Maasai Farmers Avoid Lion Attacks in Rural Tanzania
Cellphones are still relatively new in some parts of Tanzania, but have drastically impacted the way farmers work.
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The Hypnotic Clamor of Morocco
Adam Shatz reviews “Music of Morocco,” edited and annotated by Philip D. Schuyler.
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