Why Do People Carve Pumpkins for Halloween?

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Hishikawa Moronobu's Beauty Looking Back exemplifies the changing lifestyles of Japan's Tokugawa period.

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A doctor's observations of care of hospitalized dementia patients in Ireland.

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The American dress reform movement arose in the mid 19th century.

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The woman who would eventually become a fashion icon learned to sew in an orphanage.

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Learn about the importance of Dante's Inferno to Irish writers and artists.

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What's history of this traditional Irish dish?

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A discussion of Irish titles of nobility between 1541, when Henry VIII of England made himself king of Ireland, and the reign (1603–25) of James I.

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Learn about Irish culture in this visit to Chief O'Neill's pub in Chicago.