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, India, a tradition exists to throw newborn babies off the tops of buildings. At the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand...... more

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Throughout the 20th century, the emergence of authoritarian dictatorships in Latin America coincided... more

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The early 20th-century Russo-Polish legal thinker Leon Petrażycki (1867-1931) developed a comprehensive social...... more

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