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In a number of stories and novels, lost limbs represent both physical and metaphorical loss.

Mothers are smudged out and poorly cloaked beneath drapes in these 19th century portraits. But these photos are not so much relics of shoddy photography than an ode to childhood.

Spanish signs are becoming more popular in the Italian Market in South Philadelphia, but decreasing along the Golden Block in North Philadelphia.

It stands as the crowning achievement of Western classical music.

It turns out that identifying as a reader can be more about community, wealth and gender than how much someone actually reads.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.

Visually appealing and cheap to produce, AI-generated images allow scammers and spammers to post high volumes of engaging content and Facebook's algorithm may be promoting these posts.

With low-scoring games and a preponderance of deflected shots, randomness is much more likely to color NHL teams' records than those of squads in the other four major US pro sports leagues.

With low-scoring games and a preponderance of deflected shots, randomness is much more likely to color NHL teams' records than those of squads in the other four major US pro sports leagues.

Both politicians are exploiting some tried and true rhetorical and psychological tactics.