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Pope Francis 'performs first exorcism'

Pope Francis appears to have performed an exorcism on a wheelchair-bound young man who believers in the practice claim was possessed by evil.

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Neanderthal culture: Old masters

The earliest known cave paintings fuel arguments about whether Neanderthals were the mental equals of modern humans....

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Instead, the business has been utterly ruined by the negligent, slovenly way in which it was run, nor can one really say which did most harm—the bookseller's procrastination, or that of acquaintances and those managing the business in Cologne, or again the whole attitude of the democrats generally....

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Minoan civilization was made in Europe

Modern archaeologists have questioned that version of events, and now ancient DNA recovered from Cretan caves suggests that the Minoan civilization emerged from the early farmers who settled the island thousands of years earlier....

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Carlos Fuentes obituary

Carlos Fuentes was born in Panama City, but his parents were Mexican, and he later became a Mexican citizen. Fuentes's father, Rafael Fuentes Boettiger, loved books and movies. He was a career diplomat and travelled all over the world. ...

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‘Van Gogh at Work’, Amsterdam

Van Gogh’s working practice is more fully chronicled than any other major artist, owing to the survival of hundreds of his letters, most of them addressed to his art-dealer brother Theo. Full to overflowing with self-examination, they faithfully trace each step in Vincent’s 10-year struggle to find his own way....

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Fear is obviously one of the barriers to intelligence, is it not? And surely it is the very essence of education to help the student - you and me - to be aware of and to understand the causes of fear, so that from childhood onwards he can live free of fear....

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“Të gjithë shqiptarët janë dibranë”

Intervistë me Gëzim Alpion, nismëtarin e peticionin online që i kërkon qeverisë që do të dalë pas zgjedhjeve të qershorit, ndërtimin sa më shpejt dhe me standarde të Rrugës së Arbërit ......

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We are asking: is this the basic cause of our conflict? Is man doomed - as long as he lives on this marvellous earth - to perpetual conflict? One can rationalize this conflict, say nature is in conflict, the tree struggling to reach the sun is in conflict, and that that is part of our nature, because, through conflict, through competition, we have evolved, we have grown into this marvellous human being that we are - this is not being said sarcastically. Our brain is programmed to conflict....

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A sermon from an urban missionary

People across the world move to cities – and stay there – for any number of reasons. It might be a simple wish to be near the action or a desperate bid for survival. Mostly, though, it is a choice. As technology has progressed and humanity’s aspirations have advanced, so the ability of the rural experience to meet them has declined....

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