These notable stroke deaths include modern and past famous men and women, from politicians to religious leaders to writers. Everyone on this list has has stroke as a cause of death somewhere in their public records, even if it was just one contributing factor for their death. Luke...
The movie also made it clear that once you become a werewolf, the only cure is death. In this article, we'll explore how people become werewolves and what happens during the transformation. We'll also look into what werewolves represent in different cultures, and we'll examine the medical ...
The Month of March 2025: Holidays, Fun Facts, Folklore When Is St. Patrick’s Day? St. Patrick’s Day is officially observed on March 17 each year, though celebrations may not be limited to this date. The significance of March 17 is that it’s said to be the date of St. Patrick’...
White Serpent God (Japanese Folklore) 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) Dr. Lao's circus features a Medusa with snakes on her head who can turn onlookers to stone. 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) A magician turns a woman into a half snake/half woman with multiple arms to entertain the royal...
the Sumerian cities as models and improved upon them. The people who inhabited these cities are thought to have been Dravidian. That is, members of an ethnic group now found mostly in the southern parts of the Indian sub-continent and Sri Lanka, the members of which have very dark ...
I also read the British Library’s Death of a Bookseller –another good piece of escapism, with some lovely bookish details. I finally read Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, a whimsical Japanese novel that has been hugely popular. Not my usual thing perhaps, but I really ...
But this is not the way to do it. He should have created situations for the characters wherein one feels that they are in danger. This would have induced fear naturally into viewers. Then, the music would have enhanced the fear. But when there is nothing to be scared of, viewers ...
Arletta leaves and not much later Luke receives notice of her death. The warden, played by Strother Martin (“What we have here is a failure to communicate…”), recognizes this to be a/the seminal event in Luke’s life and puts him in solitary. Upon his release from “the box” Luk...
Police in Pennsylvania say a missing 16-year-old woman, who was last seen over a month ago, may be in the greater Ocean City area. The Telford Borough Police Department says Leanna Nevaeh Godshall was last seen on the afternoon of Friday, May 21st. Godshall is described as a white fema...
“I wanted to read or hear the narrative of someone else–a woman and a poet–who has gone here and been there.” Eavan Boland. The Poethead site is dedicated to the late Eavan Boland (1944-2020) Poethead was established in 2008 and finally closed to submissions in 2021. The site was...