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Drinking The Kool-Aid With Jim Jones
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Go Ask Alice and A Million Little Pieces
If you’ve gone to school in the United States sometime in the last 35 years, there’s a good chance you’ve unknowingly read an author named Beatrice Sparks.
Go Ask Alice and A Million Little Pieces
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Operation Freakout and Project Normandy
L. Ron Hubbard, the mind behind Dianetics and Scientology was a pulp sci-fi writer with a penchant for exaggeration. That part you probably already know.
Operation Freakout and Project Normandy
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Little Marjoe is Bad, But Not Evil
The world loves a child prodigy. From Mozart to Marie Curie, we venerate, we celebrate these little geniuses every chance we get.
Little Marjoe is Bad, But Not Evil
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John Holmes Has a Big Problem
From the early 70s until the early 80s, there was only one man you thought of when you thought of adult cinema: John Holmes.
Kevin Mitnick and The Art of Deception
By all accounts, former hacker Kevin Mitnick has lived a pretty unique life.
Kevin Mitnick and The Art of Deception
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