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		<title>Was Dracula a real person?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Published in 1897, Bram Stoker&#8217;s Gothic novel &#8220;Dracula&#8221; launched an entire genre of literature and film about vampires, those sinister figures who use their supernatural powers to hunt humans and drink their blood. To create his immortal antihero, Count Dracula, Stoker certainly drew on popular Central European folktales about the nosferatu (&#8220;undead&#8221;), but he also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is spontaneous human combustion real?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For several centuries, people have debated whether human beings can spontaneously combust, or burst into flames without being ignited by an external source. Though the first known accounts of spontaneous human combustion (SHC) date all the way back to 1641, the phenomenon gained wider exposure in the 19th century after popular author Charles Dickens used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the curse of King Tut real?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In early 1923, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his financier friend George Herbert, Lord Carnarvon, ceremoniously opened the long-obscured burial chamber of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamen in Egypt&#8217;s Valley of the Kings. Two months later, Carnarvon was dead, killed by blood poisoning from an infected mosquito bite on his cheek. Newspapers speculated that he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Abraham Lincoln predict his own death?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ward Hill Lamon—Abraham Lincoln’s former law partner, friend and sometime bodyguard—told a famous story about the 16th U.S. president’s premonition of his own death. According to the tale, just a few days before his assassination on April 14, 1865, Lincoln shared a recent dream with a small group that included his wife, Mary Todd, and [...]]]></description>
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