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George Heymont | Posted 04.29.2013 | Arts
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George Heymont

From psychics who claim to be communicating with the soul of the dead octopus to hucksters trying to establish whether Paul is an English or German citizen, The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus gives new meaning to Barnum's claim that "There's a sucker born every minute."

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UPDATE: Nazi Concentration Camp Puzzle On Amazon Sparks Controversy

Posted 10.02.2012 | Business
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On Amazon, customers can get almost anything their heart desires, even if that desire includes a Nazi concentration camp puzzle. The online retail...

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The Bleak Necessity Of The Dachau Tour

Traci L. Slatton | Posted 11.27.2012 | Travel
Read More: History, Munich, Empathy, Genocide, Dachau-Concentration-Camp, Dachau, World War II, Dachau Tour, Travel News
Traci L. Slatton

Our group meandered into the next room to hear about brutal capos who oversaw the prisoners, about twelve starving men sleeping in plank-board bunks built for three, about floggings and pole hangings.

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Digging Into a 20th Century Voice: The Heroine of Hemingway & Gellhorn

Andrew Fish | Posted 08.27.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Hbo, Martha Gellhorn, Dachau, Ernest Hemingway, Made for TV Movies, Hemingway & Gellhorn Hbo, Hemingway & Gellhorn, Entertainment News
Andrew Fish

Since watching Hemingway & Gellhorn a few weeks back I've been spending much of my free time absorbed in this piece of history and personality I'd never heard of before.

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Forgotten Women: Bombs, Bombshells and Barbed Wire

Gerit Quealy | Posted 08.14.2012 | Women
Read More: Martha Gellhorn, Dachau, Deborah Amos NPR, War Reporting, Department of Defense, Dickey Chappelle, Ruth Cowan, Glass Ceiling, No Job for a Woman, Wwii, Slidepollajax, Women News
Gerit Quealy

There's always a pendulum swing, but in the sphere of women's equality it seems more like the second hand on a surreal grandfather clock.

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Dachau Survivor And Liberator Meet 6 Decades Later

AP | By JOANN LOVIGLIO | Posted 03.05.2012 | Good News
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PHILADELPHIA -- The way Ernie Gross and Don Greenbaum laugh and tell jokes with the ease of old friends, it's easy to assume the dapper octogenarians ...

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Movie Review: Shutter Island

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Shock Corridor, Max Von Sydow, Spellbound, Martin Scorsese, Michelle Williams, Out of the Past, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Dachau, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, The Snake Pit, Shutter Island Movie Review, New York Film Critics Circle, Dennis Lehane, Leonardo Dicaprio, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

DiCaprio isn't just a star -- he's a smart, resourceful actor intimately in tune with his emotions and capable of nearly anything on screen.

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Letter From Paris: Let the Saints Come Marching In

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Day of the Dead, France, Paris, Buchenwald, Dachau, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Oscar Wilde, Halloween, Alice B. Toklas, Nazi Concentration Camps, All Saints Day, Gertrude Stein, Edith Piaf, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Style News
Beth Arnold

We headed over to the beautiful cemetery to say hey to Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and others. If the 20th Arrondissement is good enough for them, then it certainly should work for us.

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On the Road: Why Do We Want To Travel?

Robert Fuller | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Robert Fuller

Fear is part of what makes travel so enlivening and revelatory. You're perpetually off-balance and on guard. After a while one yearns for the mindlessness of familiar routines.

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