The first two botanists who surveyed, and survived, the Colorado River
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Andrew Ridgeley on George Michael and life after Wham!
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Upcoming Netflix WWII film, Six Triple Eight, stars Kerry Washington in film about unique Black female American unit
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Tango may be most closely associated with Argentina, but it also has a long tradition in Finland
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Freedom House Ambulance Service - a history of the USA's first paramedics
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The original fettuccine alfredo with no cream
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Rewinding Jimi Hendrix’s national anthem
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Some historians say that the last US Revolutionary War battle was fought in India
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Gini global inequality at lowest level in nearly 150 years
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Anthony Fauci on Larry Kramer and loving difficult people
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On the history of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and the rise of Walt Disney
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Help me build my “woke” Fourth of July playlist
As the holiday comes up, I’m building a tongue-in-cheek party playlist that speaks to the full color of this beautiful country we Americans call home. I’m kicking it off with these songs, but what...
As the holiday comes up, I’m building a tongue-in-cheek party playlist that speaks to the full color of this beautiful country we Americans call home.
I’m kicking it off with these songs, but what would you add to this playlist?
- Uncle Sam Goddamn by Brother Ali
- This is America by Childish Gambino
- National Anthem by Lana Del Rey
- American Pie by Shea Diamond
- Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day
- Know Your Enemy by Rage Against the Machine
- Gentrify by Propoganda
What songs would you add to this playlist? I’ll add songs to my playlist as we go!
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Savate: The real origin of Karate kicks
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Near Dayton, Ohio there's a lookalike of the Wright Brothers' Model B, a 1910 aircraft with no cockpit. It's a modern plane with a very old design, and I went for a ride.
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How this train beat the plane: The TGV story
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The controversial gay priest who brought vigilante justice to San Francisco's streets
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Oppenheimer's tragic love interest Jean Tatlock was likely bisexual or lesbian
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Book review: 'Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk'
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Where to find digitalized illustrations from the past such as these?
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Dark waters of self-delusion: The crash of Transair flight 810
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The darker side of Disney songs
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US gay magazines and shopping by mail before Stonewall
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Alfred the Great against the Vikings: How realistic is England in Crusader Kings III?
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2,200 forgotten vintage computers are being liberated from a barn in Massachusetts
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How The X-Files invented modern television
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The best band in Mardi Gras land | Local Legends
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Inside a secret lesbian sex toy smuggling ring
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History of transcendental numbers
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The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped
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When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering.
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Jugger is a team sport played with varied foam weapons
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | re:View
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The famous Nuclear Gandhi glitch in Civilization is a hoax
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The Early History Of Smalltalk
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The history of how US school buses became yellow
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Hidden pain, controlled bodies: Does ballet have to be like this? A recent explosion of revelations from ballet dancers confronts an art form afraid to look itself in the mirror.
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A sickness and its cure: The crash of Trans-Colorado Airlines flight 2286
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Pink Floyd, 'The Wizard of Oz,' and me
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A Chorus Line: The history behind the line
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Wendover Productions on Nebula
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A dialog in Real Time Strategy - The early years of competition between Blizzard and Westwood
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Eighty year anniversary of a speed record build of a World War II bomber
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The woman preserving the endangered cuisine of Indian Jews. Esther David traveled from the spice port of Cochin to the mountains of Mizoram to record this culinary culture.
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Is it time to do away with “good taste?”
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Windows 98 icons are great
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By studying dig sites, sagas and ancient cookbooks, a culinary archaeologist is recreating dishes the Vikings ate – and rewriting the popular view of these people in the process
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The history of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
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How one American mother’s love for her gay son started a revolution
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A history of NVIDIA Stream Multiprocessor
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What happened to Digg?
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