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In July 1518, an outbreak of uncontrollable dancing swept through Strasbourg. Here is what the records say, why the city made it worse, the theories that don't hold up, and the one that does.
The Athenians kept a famous ship by replacing its rotting planks one by one. Philosophers have argued ever since about whether it was still the same ship. Here is why the question matters for objects, bands, institutions and people.
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