Other figures include handmade chess sets, religious figurines like the Virgin of Guadalupe and skulls made to resemble calaveras, or sugar skulls, which are a symbol tied to Day of the Dead.
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Alyssa N. Salcedo,
jsonline.com,
25 Oct. 2025
And there are more gameplay modifiers (known as skulls in the Halo universe) than ever before, which allow players to add some extra difficulty and chaos to their sessions.
As for Sundance’s main slate of world premiere films, the festival is still heads down screening some half a dozen movies a day ahead of lineup announcements later this fall.
—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Oct. 2025
For the second year in a row, Messi and Inter Miami, the most expensive and hyped team in Major League Soccer, the team others in the league loves to hate, heads into the playoffs on the heels of a hat trick by the Argentine star.
Walt Disney Imagineering updated the storyline of Black Widow Bride Constance Hatchway earlier this year by turning her from an axe murderer who beheads her wealthy husbands into a more mournful figure overwhelmed by the dread of lost love.
—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
13 Oct. 2025
As king, Shakespeare’s Macbeth meets a tragic end when civil war erupts and his rival Macduff beheads him.
—
Marlene L. Daut
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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