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In a perplexing archaeological find, researchers have discovered the body of a Roman woman with a tumor in her pelvis embedded with four deformed teeth. Scientists say that the 30-something woman, interred in a necropolis near Lleida, in the Catalonia region of Spain, died some 1,600 years ago. A condition known to doctors as an…
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Police in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia have intervened to prevent the forced marriage of a 13-year-old girl belonging to a Muslim immigrant family from Morocco. The girl was one of nine reported victims of forced marriage in Catalonia during the first six months of 2012. Seven of the reported cases involved minors, but…
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Two Islamists have been arrested in Spain on charges of torturing and murdering two fellow Muslims for "abandoning radical Islam." The arrests came just days after Spanish newspapers reported that jihadists in Spain are travelling to Syria to help overthrow the government there. Spanish authorities say the incidents — on top of many others in…
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Today marks the 508th anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus. Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He was an Italian explorer from Genoa who set sail in 1492 to enrich the Spanish monarchs with gold and spices from the orient. Not quite. For too long, scholars have ignored Columbus's grand passion: the quest…
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