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Disney has been taking over the world of cinema in the last decade or so, either by building their own brands or by flat-out buying companies that owned the movie rights to said brands. And as much as you can question their business practices, the fact remains that there’s almost no character smothered in nostalgia […]

Back when there was a way to listen to music without streaming it to your devices, buying physical albums was the best way to show people how broad (or narrow) your taste in music was. You’d stock piles of them on your shelves, listen to each one and show them off whenever there was someone […]

You could be forgiven if you assumed the Vatican — headquarters of Roman Catholicism — was a district of Rome. After all, the religion even has the city’s name in its title. But you would be mistaken! Although it’s located entirely within Rome, the home of the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica is actually […]

2020 was arguably the worst year for humanity since World War II, and even now the pandemic persists. As of late April 2021, over 3.1 million people have died of Covid-19. In America —  the country with the world’s biggest economy —  580,000 have perished, nearly 20% of the global death toll.  While the pandemic […]

Getting sick and tired of Covid-19? While it is still important to mask up and practice social distancing, the distribution of vaccines offers hope that even if the world has changed forever, there will be a return to at least some sense of normalcy in the near future. In the meantime, since we’re on the […]

How do you like living in your country? Since you’re reading this on the internet, you’re probably pretty set for now, but would you say you’re happy? Interestingly, despite the devastating events of the past year, the changes in the ranking of the happiest countries are very insignificant compared to 2020 or even 2019. For […]