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The Farmer Vanishes, by Marian Kensler (5/12/08): Article.; [M]any American children have unknowingly become acquainted with Ambrose Bierce's fiction well before the obligatory high school reading of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."
"Do No Harm to Me or Mine": The Haunted History of Christmas Eve, by Marian Kensler (12/18/06): Article.; The attempts to Christianize Yule and Saturnalia were not entirely effective. Instead of becoming gradually transformed into wholly Christian holidays, as Gregory the Great had hoped, many of the old traditions continued unabated, particularly in more remote regions.
"May You Die in Horrible Agony": A Brief Overview of Curses in the Western World, by Marian Kensler (2/2/04): Article.; "You taught me language—and my profit on't is, I know how to curse."

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