Fifty years later, this Apollo-era antenna still talks to Voyager 2
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Turning old maps into 3D digital models of lost neighborhoods
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Remembering the man who helped save Star Trek the original series
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Why the short-lived Calvin and Hobbes is still one of the most beloved and influential comic strips
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The forgotten war on beepers
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How the 18th-century gay bar survived and thrived in a deadly environment
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The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage”
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There used to be a people’s bank at the US Post Office
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‘It’s plain elitist’: anger at Greek plan for €5,000 private tours of Acropolis
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Everybody's obsessed with the retro corporate aesthetic
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The hazy evolution of cannabis
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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Volvo is celebrating its 97th birthday with the opening of what it calls "World of Volvo" in the company's hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Six badass librarians who changed history
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How to make a time capsule
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We made and distilled the 1886 Pemberton Coca Cola recipe from 'Glen And Friends' then taste tested the results with Glen
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The making of Pentiment
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Airline food during the golden age of air travel
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Explore Edvard Munch's masterpiece “The Scream,” and find out why this artwork became one of the world's most famous paintings | Noah Charney
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Insular India - A video on the archaeological legacies of the Indian subcontinent
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ABBA, cabaret and smug marionettes – the 1974 Eurovision song contest reviewed
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Beastie Boys paid for Donna Lee Parsons gender-affirming surgery
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Saffron: The story of the world’s most expensive spice
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The lone prospectors keeping the legacy of the gold rush alive
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On the nature of ancient evidence
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25th anniversary interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon’s creator, Chris Sawyer
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The Matrix forever changed the craft of Hollywood filmmaking
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Children predict the year 2000 (1966, video)
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Oslo community club KFUM will make their Eliteserien debut next week after an incredible rise through the Norwegian divisions
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Analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven’s DNA revealed that he had a low genetic predisposition for musical ability
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The Ladoga was the Soviet Union’s plush nuclear-war command vehicle. A drone just blew one up in Eastern Ukraine.
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Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492
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“But the ancient Greeks didn’t *sound* Irish…” On capturing voice in historical fiction
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SNES piracy in the 1990s - disk copiers
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NASCAR acquires the first paved track it ever raced on
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‘X-Men ’97’ bridges the X-Men’s past and future
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Can a movie change the law? The 1961 film 'Victim' isn't just a tense thriller, it was crafted to serve as a stealthy challenge to a British law that criminalized the very existence of homosexuals.
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Will there ever be another great men’s college basketball team?
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Why the 2% inflation target?
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Let's Build: USMC M4A2 Sherman from Saipan 1944 (Dragon 1/35)
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Writer, woman, playwright, spy: Aphra Behn, author of Oroonoko was the first known woman to be paid for writing in English
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From Red Riding Hood to Beowulf: On the essential role of literary reimaginings
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How TV went from bad to great
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Ancient Beat - the newsletter of ancient history - celebrates its 100th Issue
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Bread in the Middle Ages
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The best footballer Finland has ever produced, Jari Litmanen reflects on the highs and lows of his career and his anonymous life today in Estonia
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When Virginia Woolf wrote about early women writers, she was unaware of or underestimated a few published Elizabethan women
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The right to change sex
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How user groups made software reuse a reality
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I found Frank Herbert’s Dune script. It’s hard to imagine a weirder film version of Dune than the one David Lynch released in 1984, but Frank Herbert found a way. Dune: Part Two is better.
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