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Scarleteen.com webmaster, writer and photographer Heather Corinna is interviewed in a CNN video about her controversial T-shirts.
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Originating in the United States, blackface theatrical makeup was used to take on the appearance of an archetype of American racism.
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Frank Henelotter, the exploitation genius who brought you Frankenhooker, Brain Damage, and the Basket Case trilogy, is finally showing his new flick, Bad Biology, at film festivals.
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In this clip from October 1957, St. Cyr discusses the advanced emotions of Venusian men with interviewer Mike Wallace on The Mike Wallace Interview, a smoky precursor to 60 Minutes that ran from 1957 to 1960.
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Here’s an online comic book about this history of LSD done up in the style of one of those hateful Chick tracts.
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April 7 marks the 75th anniversary of the official beginning of the end for Prohibition. On the date in 1933, legal beer production resumed in the United States, sparking celebration among brewers and imbibers alike.
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A sea journey puts you on a continuum of discovery that began well before Magellan, or Columbus, or red-faced old Leif Ericson.
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A piece of flint the size of a small cell phone and hundreds of tiny sharp “knives” unearthed deep in a rock shelter in Australia date back at least 35,000 years, archaeologists said Monday.
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A new study of computer gamers has found that a session in front of World of Warcraft can make players less stressed and more calm.
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Researchers at Microsoft Labs are hoping to allow untrained singers to have their own automatic backup band in the near future. A new piece of software, “MySong”, promises to take a sung melody and using a probability computation algorithm, generate an ap
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Two people have died in Spain after contracting the human form of “mad cow disease”, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), Spanish media has said.
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The Sotheby’s auction house has withdrawn from auction a set of body armour that Sikhs say once belonged to Guru Gobind Singh.
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A man in New Zealand has been charged with using a hedgehog as a weapon, the New Zealand Herald has reported.
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A former slave is suing Niger’s government, accusing it of failing to implement laws against slavery introduced in 2003.
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An Australian man and his daughter have asked for understanding after revealing on national TV they have an incestuous relationship, and have a daughter.
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It’s a dizzying reversal of traditional gender roles in a country long known for geishas pampering male clients with conversation, singing and dancing. Now a new breed of entertainer has cropped up — think of them as male geishas.
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Formerly professional caterer of the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, Astor House, New York, and other leading hotels. Author of “Salads and Sauces,”
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The states that are called Neo-Hittite, or more recently Syro-Hittite, were Luwian, Aramaic and Phoenician-speaking political entities of Iron Age northern Syria and southern Anatolia that arose following the collapse of the Hittite Empire around 1180 BC
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