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In the long, blood-stained history of humanity, no horror had ever been written quite like this. Kings had slaughtered their rivals, dictators had starved nations, and conquerors had burned entire ...

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It’s often deemed the first color, the strongest color, the color that stands for color itself. So why does it keep slipping ...