Topic: death
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A Funeral Car Named 'Descanso,' or, When Death Rode the Rails in America
In the first decades of the 20th century, if you died in a city, you may have traveled toward your final resting place via public transit.
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Morbid Database of the Day: Death Locations
Do you like maps and death?
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Why Are We So Afraid of Being Hit by a Subway Train?
How something so statistically unlikely managed to captivate our imaginations.
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Maps
Watch This Anxiety-Provoking Simulation of U.S. Births and Deaths
The screams of the newly born and grim silence of the dying is visualized in this statistical tango that's mesmerizing to watch.
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How Ghana's Coffin Builders Inspired 'Zombie Furniture'
Looking for furniture that will both tie the room together and make your guests gag with fear?
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Italian Town Outlaws Death
Also, Boston hates moshpits; an Illinois town repeals Prohibition; New York City's teachers should stay far away from Facebook.
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Chicagoans vs. Falling Icicles: A History
The Chicago skyline is gorgeous to look at, but in the winter it rains down icy fingers of death upon the populace.
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The Challenges of Burying the Dead in Urban Asia
Space restraints have led to new rituals in Far Eastern cities.
