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Introduction: The Paradox of Faith and Festivity. Every December, the hills of Nagaland awaken to the beating of drums, the resonance of folk songs, and the vivid spectacle of traditional attire. The ...

And there endeth the Book of Trump. Except, of course, it doesn’t.

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I’ll begin with a little bit of history and mythology. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It was a structure famous for its imposing size and for the works of ...

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Put succinctly, the history of Halloween as we know it is a muddy, confusing collection of practices that probably owe more ...