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The Mexican state of Chiapas (officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas) is located in the nation's south, bordering Guatemala and the Pacific Ocean. Among the many indigenous people of the area are the Tzotzil, who are about 300,000 strong and live primarily in a municipality known as San Juan de Chamula (known simply as Chamula).

Every so often, the Roman Catholic Church has to choose a new pope – and it's a big deal when that happens, capturing the attention of millions of people (even non-Catholics) around the world. The meeting, called a "papal conclave," has a procedure which has been around for centuries.

With a list price of $18.95, the Casio F91-W digital watch is cheap – and selling for $10.72 on Amazon as of this writing. It's well-regarded, with well over 1,000 reviews on Amazon, nearly 90 percent of which are for four or five stars.

Paninis with ham and Colby cheese; Moroccan roast chicken breast; lentil, quinoa and eggplant salads; a make-your-own-gourmet-burger bar; chipotle pulled pork over brown rice; poached pears; porridge; and balsamic strawberry craft sodas – according to various news reports, those are some of the items on the menu at The Corner, a cafe in Sydney, Australia.

In September 2013, a New York City man named Antonio Ciccarello died as a result of a stab wound. About five days prior to his death, Ciccarello was commuting to work like he normally did, traveling from Manhattan's Lower East Side to Times Square. But this trip was different.

In 2011, a total of 81,000 people were adopted by Japanese families. If you think that's a lot of babies changing families, though, you're wrong – but not because 81,000 is a small number.

Bret "The Hitman" Hart was a wrestling icon in the late 1980s and well into the '90s. Born to a pro wrestler, Hart's DNA and training made him a natural performer in the "squared circle," to use the parlance of the industry.

Television is a very powerful medium, the value of which extends well beyond the escapism and entertainment that it brings into our homes. If you're a marketer, for example, you can use TV to introduce a new product to consumers and, via the magic of product placements, make it seem like a must-have item. After all, if your customers' favorite characters use your product, maybe your customers will too.

A typical Hershey's chocolate bar is 1.55 ounces (or about 44 grams) and contains 210 calories—most of which are empty, or nutrient-less, calories. No doubt about it, Hershey bars are a treat—and there are few people, if any, who would say otherwise.

World of Warcraft – better known as WoW, to many – debuted in late 2004. Just under a decade later, it was reported that players of the virtual universe had created more than 100 million accounts over the game's lifetime.

The white rhinoceros is classified as "near threatened." As of 2016, there are about 20,000 such rhinos in the world.

Charles Schulz, creator of the iconic comic strip Peanuts, saw the stripe's protagonist, Charlie Brown, as a laughable loser. According to the Peanuts Wiki website, Schulz once said that "Charlie Brown must be the one who suffers, because he's a caricature of the average person. Most of us are much more acquainted with losing than winning. Winning is great, but it isn't funny."

The marbled murrelet is a seabird native to the coasts of the Pacific Ocean and is often spotted around Oregon, Washington, Northern California, British Columbia and Alaska (as well as somewhat in Russia and northern Japan). They thrive in old-growth forests, and if you're a human, it's rare to find one of their nests, as they tend to build them hundreds of feet off the ground.

The Kiss Cam is a time-honored tradition of American sporting events. During time outs and other stoppages of play, the stadium events team – having already scoured the crowd for a target – focuses the cameras on a couple and puts their picture on the scoreboard.

You may know Arnold Schwarzenegger by such films as Terminator, Twins, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, Terminator 2, Conan the Barbarian, Predator, True Lies, Conan the Destroyer, and Terminator 3. You probably also know him as the 38th governor of California, serving in that office from November 2003 until January 2011.

For the almost the entire first half of the 20th century, African Americans were barred from playing for Major League Baseball teams. But on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier.

For some people, high school is life's best years. For others, those four years are, well, happily forever in the past. But at any rate, once high school is over, you can't go back—at least, not as a student.

On the southern shore of eastern Cuba is Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a small outcrop of land and sea controlled by the United States. The almost-rectangular 45-square-mile zone has been home to US troops since the summer of 1898, when Marines landed there during the Spanish-American War.

In the 1996 film The Birdcage, Agador (played by actor Hank Azaria) regularly provided his friend and employer, Albert (played by Nathan Lane) with "Pirin" tablets. Pirin could treat a variety of maladies – anxiety, headaches, panic attacks, hyperactivity and more.

In the 1971 book The Lorax, the incomparable Dr. Seuss tells the story of an environmentally conscious monster (the Lorax) and his efforts to protect Truffula trees (a fictional species) from an industrialist named the Once-ler who is chopping them down.