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11 powerful photos from the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide

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Six days after Rwandan President JuvĂ©nal Habyarimana was assassinated and the killings began in Kigali, Washington Post photographer Michael S. Williamson arrived at the hillside in Ngara district in Tanzania, at the Kigera River border crossing with Rwanda. The hillside would soon become a known as Benaco refugee camp, where hundreds or thousands of people were pouring in from Rwanda everyday. At the height of the incident, Benaco accommodated as many as 200,000 Rwandan refugees. Read More...

How do I make my hair GREY for Halloween?

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To make your hair look gray for a costume, try using talcum powder or cornstarch. First, dip a sponge or brush into the powder. Brush the hair along your temples first, since this is typically where people start to go gray. Then, work from your roots down for a more realistic look.Click to see full answer. Also question is, how do I make my hair GREY for 100 days of school? Read More...

The uncensored Grimm fairy tales are even more grim than you thought

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Grimm Brothers fairy tales, in their original telling, were actually pretty . um, grim. Now a new translation, hailed as a blow against censorship, is proving it anew. In yet another example of Western culture turning out to be darker and more horrifying than we knew, Princeton University Press has just published a new English translation of the original 165 stories collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, which was first published in German in 1812. Read More...