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For those who liked Corpse Bride and The Nightmare Before Christmas the new computer animated film Igor will be an interesting thing to watch. It was not written, produced and directed by Tim Burton as the other two, but the image of crookedly looking people with big round eyes definitely reminds Burton’s works.

While in the New World, especially in the Mayan civilization, tobacco was considered a sacred substance of the Gods, in Spain of the 17th century is was not welcomed at all. By Order of Pope Urban VIII, excommunication was a punishment for smoking or snuffing tobacco in any Christian church of Spain. Pope Innocent X banned using tobacco snuffs in the Basilica of St. Peter in 1650.