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In 2002, the Cedarville School Board in Crawford County, Arkansas, ordered the removal of J.K. Ro...

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Filmmakers employ various images to suggest the strangeness of outer space, but protective spaces...

Appointed by Pope Paul IV to examine the role of women in the Bible, the Pontifical Biblical Comm...

W.H. Auden's life and work were perhaps best explained and condensed in the words of Edward Mende...

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This considerably expanded third edition of The Christmas Encyclopedia (2001) adds 281 new entrie...

American silent film star Mabel Normand (1892-1930) appeared in a string of popular movies opposi...

Afghanistan has become home to one of the largest gender-focused aid interventions in the afterma...

This richly detailed examination of two branches of American entertainment focuses on the various...

Theodore Bundy was one of the more infamous, and flamboyant, American serial killers on record, a...

A new type of player is stepping into the batter's box--the on-base specialist. And it's about ti...

'The U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities committed in Germany and Nazi-occupi...

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Elon Perry joined the Israel Defense Forces as a teenager in 1975--one of many young Israelis who...