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Halloween is one of the greatest days of the year. When you’re a kid, there’s nothing better than being encouraged to go out and stuff your face with as much candy as you can get your hands on. Halloween is fun for adults too, as handing out candy is a nostalgic reminder of our youth. [...]
Posted by Mark Hill on Friday, October 26, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Filed under Food, Holidays, Humor · Tagged accountant, aerospace engineers, burns, candy, Candy Jewelry, cent, chocolate, Confectionery, dangerous industrial chemical, Dubble Bubble, food and drink, Gobstopper, halloween, halloween fact, Liquorice, Necco Wafers, otherwise delicious food, Smarties, surgeon, Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Roll Industries, Tootsie Rolls
Life debts (owing one’s life to someone else) have been ingrained in our minds by pop culture behemoths from Star Wars to Harry Potter. Or at least we expect gratitude or some sort of glory or respect for it, especially if we risk our lives or livelihoods for another. But some people are capable of [...]
Posted by Dustin Koski on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 12:01 am
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The practice of binding books in human skin, also known as anthropodermic bibliopegy, is not just the stuff of dark legends and horror fiction. It was a real technique which, although frowned upon and considered ghastly by today’s standards, was officially practiced since the 17th century. The technique gained considerable popularity during the French Revolution and among [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Crime, History, People · Tagged Anthropodermic bibliopegy, astronomer and author, At Slippery Rock University’s Bailey Library, Camille Flammarion, Crime, English court, Ethics, Exeter, Exeter hospital, Flaying, George Creed, George Cudmore, guy fawkes, Harvard University, head, Henry Garnet, Jacques Delille, James Allen, James Johnson, John A. Fenno, John Milton, Jonas Wright, King, Langdell Law Library, Leeds, Leeds,West Yorkshire,United Kingdom, Maria Marten, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Turnpike, Massachusetts,United States, Mayaguez Plateau, Moyse’s Hall Museum, Murders, Norwich, poet, prison warden, Red Barn, Red Barn Murder, representative, Samuel Johnson, Slippery Rock University, suffolk, Suffolk Hospital, surgeon, tuberculosis, United Kingdom, violence, W. Clifford, Westcountry Studies Library, William Corder, Zimbabwe
