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Curses & Omens
Alleged curses and portents — Tutankhamun's tomb, the Hope Diamond, cursed productions — tracing each story's origin and testing it against the record.
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Was the Film 'The Conqueror' Really Cursed by Nuclear Fallout?
Was 1956's 'The Conqueror' really cursed? Why an unusually high number of its cast and crew developed cancer after filming downwind of a nuclear test site.
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Is the Hope Diamond Really Cursed?
Is the Hope Diamond cursed? The real, documented history behind the legend, and how Smithsonian research traced the curse story to 20th-century invention.
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Is the Curse of Tutankhamun Real?
Is the curse of Tutankhamun real? Lord Carnarvon's actual cause of death, the tabloid rivalry that fuelled the story, and what a 2002 mortality study found.
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