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Bullhead

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The Great Nordic Biker War

The Hell’s Angels long had global ambitions. From their humble beginnings in 1948 as a pack of thrillseeking and hellraising ex-airmen out of Fontana, California to near mythic ,and certainly iconic, status under the leadership of Sonny Barger out of Oakland less than 20 years later with chapters all over the United States. Today The [...]
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White Magic

"Wherever I go people start talking about me, saying that my legs and hands can fetch a fortune in Tanzania," –Mary Owido, Nairobi, Kenya The belief that albino body parts hold magical powers and can confer longevity has been long held in East Africa. Albinos are feared by some in this region as “ghosts from [...]
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Operation CHAOS

In theory, the CIA’s charter prohibits it from engaging in domestic operations. In practice, that’s taken about as seriously as Jay-Z’s periodic announcements that he’s retiring from show biz. The CIA explains its massive presence on US campuses by saying that so many foreign students attend US universities, it would be a shame not to [...]
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Rectangle of Woe

A mysterious window to the supernatural in mid-America has been the scene of many bizarre, unexplained UFO and Bigfoot events for more than 100 years. So strange and bewildering are the events in the area of southwest Michigan that before the white man came, the native Indians called one body of water Magician Lake. “There [...]
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