Questions over their value for research conflict with the ethics of possessing the dead, especially when presenting human remains in the setting of a museum.

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One of the arguments of Irish nationalism was that English rule was morally corrupting. There was no better example of this than same-sex desire.

In the Catholic tradition, Epiphany is the day the Three Kings first met Baby Jesus. But in Italy, it’s also the day La Befana shows up with a basket of gifts.

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The invention of the shopping cart changed our purchasing patterns, but the way we use it also reflects how we live life on the streets.

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Poor laws passed in Great Britain in the 1830s reversed a centuries-old tradition to forbid workhouses from serving roast beef and plum pudding at Christmas.

In December 1933, Judge John Woolsey issued what would become one of the best known legal decisions on obscenity in United States history.