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Global Halloween celebrations: how the world honours the dead through Samhain, Día de los Muertos, Obon and beyond.

Global Halloween celebrations: how the world honours the dead through Samhain, Día de los Muertos, Obon and beyond

Every autumn, as the veil between worlds grows thin and shadows lengthen, millions of people across the globe participate in ancient rituals to honour their departed loved ones. From the Celtic bonfires of Samhain in Ireland to the marigold-adorned altars

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When the World Broke – Ep. 3: 1931 China floods: when water, politics, and disease created the deadliest disaster of the 20th century.

When the World Broke – Ep. 3: 1931 China floods: when water, politics, and disease created the deadliest disaster of the 20th century

In the annals of human catastrophe, few events rival the sheer destructive magnitude of the 1931 China floods. This disaster transformed vast swathes of central China into an inland sea and claimed more lives than any other natural calamity of

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