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How Alang Shipyard Works
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In this mass graveyard, workers dismantle 52,000-ton ships using simple hand tools. Why would anyone want to work at Alang? Is this place doing the world a service by recycling obsolete ships?
How Leper Colonies (Leprosaria) Work
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Leprosy, or Hansen's disease, was the AIDS of the first millennium. Find out how leper colonies (leprosaria) worked at HowStuffWorks.
What Rumi, the World's Most Popular Poet, Wants to Teach Us, 800 Years Later
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Rumi, the Sufi mystic and Persian poet wrote a staggering amount of verse, and is still widely influential and beloved to this day.
How Squatting Works
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Squatting is setting up camp on land or moving into an unused building. Learn what laws protect squatters and how squatting affects culture.
Medieval History Quiz
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Alright, history buffs, it's time to pack up your books and take a journey back to medieval Europe with this quiz. Will you get a victory or fall before the battle even gets started? Let's find out!
Can You Identify at Least 20 Top Musicals of All Time by Just One Lyric?
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Love musicals? Then, you'll want to add this quiz to your list of favorite things, along with "raindrops on roses ... and whiskers on kittens!" Give your regards to Broadway in this musical tour of some of the theater's best hits.
Can You Name These Popular Songs If We Mess Up the Lyrics?
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Was Jimi Hendrix asking to be left alone so he could kiss the sky or kiss a guy?! Either way, if you knew the song in question was "Purple Haze," then this is the quiz for you!
10 Strange Structural Engineering Marvels
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Some architects and engineers go big. Others get fancy. And yet others aim squarely for the completely bizarre. These imagination-bending, gravity-defying products may induce more than a few OMGs.
Before Christianity, Judaism and Islam, There Was Zoroastrianism
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It's the oldest (and probably most obscure) monotheistic religion. So, how did it influence so many of the better-known ones? And will Zoroastrianism survive?
Better Get the Jumbo Popcorn: 10 Longest Hollywood Movies
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Get your extra-large soda and popcorn ready: You'll need them to last during these 10 supersized movies. Which one is the longest?