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Stories, Film & Culture

Lessons from film and fiction, labelled as fiction; plus the meanings, memes and origins people search for.

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BACKGROUND · EL GRECO, VIEW OF TOLEDO, C. 1599–1600 · THE MET, OPEN ACCESS

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STORIES, FILM & CULTURE · 5 MIN · 14 POINTS

Real or Myth? 14 Popular Claims, Checked

Fourteen popular claims, checked one at a time. Nine are myths, three are partly true, one cannot be settled, and one holds up.

STORIES, FILM & CULTURE · 5 MIN

Toma Meaning

In Spanish and Portuguese, toma is a form of tomar: the command "take!" and "he/she takes". Tomar also means to eat or drink.

STORIES, FILM & CULTURE · 6 MIN

FRIDAY THE 13TH ∙ Origins and Superstitions

Friday the 13th is about two hundred years old. The earliest clear references are two French texts from 1834; by the middle of the 19th century the belief was common in France, and references begin to show up regularly in American newspapers in the late 1880s.