Why did the world’s best chess player go insane?
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‘What is a yute?’: An oral history of ‘My Cousin Vinny’
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Why dark and light is complicated in photographs
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Six people who were part of a failed 1950s social experiment have won compensation from Denmark's government and will receive a face-to-face apology from the prime minister
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Margrete: Queen of the North / Margrete Den Første | UK trailer
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We're building computers wrong
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Against the Ice | Official trailer
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The first ever drum machine you could buy - 1959 Wurlitzer Sideman
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What really happened during the 2003 blackout?
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Soap or Scum? Inside the fight over history's most controversial sitcom
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The history of Super Punch-Out world records
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The bewildering architecture of indoor cities
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Alien Worlds radio compilation
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An analysis of what crypto has now become by David S. H. Rosenthal, one of the original developers of PoW
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The Interstate's forgotten code
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The Fed’s entry into check clearing reconsidered
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How wine bricks saved the US wine industry during Prohibition
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The giant chainmail box that stops a house dissolving
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In 1965, Teté-Michel Kpomassie left his Togo homeland for a new life in Greenland; the first African man to set foot there
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Peculiar musical instruments at St Cecilia's Hall - The University of Edinburgh's musical instrument museum
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The history of Sanford & Son
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Is rhythm in our DNA?
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She was a notorious hacker in the '80s - then she disappeared: Searching for Susy Thunder
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Okuda Hiroko: The Casio employee behind the “Sleng Teng” riddim that revolutionized reggae
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What happened to Old London Bridge? | Unfinished London
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The last design you'll ever make
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Roman Cataphracts (1st-5th Century) | Units of History
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How our ancestors used to sleep can help the sleep-deprived today
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Mers el Kebir 1940 - Britain attacks her ally
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Former NJ librarian told students in DC to reenact Holocaust scenes, report says
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Asta Nielsen, the Danish silent film star who taught Greta Garbo everything – discover her in a BFI season dedicated to her extraordinary talent
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Bliss - The story of Windows XP’s famous default wallpaper
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Always remember - The Therac 25 incident
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What was watchtower duty like on the Roman frontier?
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When SimCity got serious: The story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
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Hark back to the late 1990s with this re-creation of the dialup Internet experience
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Archaeology’s sexual revolution
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The real story behind Fanta's Nazi German origins
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Secret military telephone buttons
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How the SOPA blackout happened
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Minitel: The online world France built before the web
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Native Americans: Portraits from a century ago
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How the personal computer broke the human body
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Nautilus (GNOME Files) icon view retrospective and future
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Fifty years of text games
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(mac)OStalgia: 2021 meets Mac OS 9 (featuring designs for Spotify, Slack, Zoom)
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While millions of children all over the world wait eagerly for Father Christmas or Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, youngsters in Iceland start receiving their presents on Dec. 11th
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When Jimmy Stewart played the villain
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Behind the scenes of Spectrum’s dive into the Atari 2600 design - Telling the story in 1983 meant digging details out of developers and dodging lawyers
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Vaccinia
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