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We have all heard strange stories of famous people mysteriously disappearing, or dying under suspicious circumstances. These stories, so incomplete or bizarre, often ...
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The Architecture of Death

The ways human beings have memorialized the dead has always been a reflection of a society’s changes over time. Burying and commemorating the ...
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