In 2005, the video game World of Warcraft struck the cultural landscape with tidal force. One hundred million have people played WoW in the twelve years since its inception, making it by any objectiv
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This is one of Sgt. Beef's most interesting and perplexing cases. It involves a murder, but one in which no body can be found. Young Rogers announces to Beef and others assembled in a local pub that h
Lucrezia Floriani, a worldly 30-year-old actress and the mother of 4 children with 3 different fathers, meets and falls in love with Prince Karol, a moody, introspective aristocrat.
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