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When most of us hear the word psychopath, we think of a serial killer, but it turns out there are many more of them that we think. In fact, you probably know a few.

What is “psychopathy” anyway? Joseph Newman, who has spent his life studying prison inmates in Wisconsin, has devoted his career to answering that question. He says, “My main concern is that the label is applied too liberally and without sufficient understanding of the key elements. As a result, the term is often applied to ordinary criminals and sex offenders whose behavior may reflect primarily social factors or other emotional problems that are more amenable to treatment than psychopathy.”
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Authors like Laurence Gardner and Michael Baigent have proposed the idea that a pregnant Mary Magdalene escaped into France. There are legends that say her progeny infused the blood of the royal families of Europe, but this may have been a story that was created as a bid for divine power.

When people pay money to get their family trees researched, they often find an extraordinary number of royals in the mix?perhaps because the person doing it doesn’t want to come up with a family tree made up of only ordinary people. But sometimes we really DO descend from kings and queens: Actress Brooke Shields has Catherine de Medici, Lucrezia Borgia, Charlemagne, Machiavelli, El Cid, William the Conquerer and 5 popes in her family tree.
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Many Biblical stories have turned out to be myths, but on this week’s Dreamland, Linda Howe reports on new information about Noah’s Ark: remains of an ancient ship found in an area of Iran known as Ararat.

Leonard David writes in LiveScience.com about some mysterious ruins of what look like a ship, high up on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, that have been seen by the QuickBird satellite. The ruins are frozen inside a huge block of ice.
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