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Jack Conroy, proletarian author and editor, supported important 20th century US poets
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The methodical plan to erase Chicago
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‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood
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The state as blunt force - impressions of the Columbia campus clearance
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Viral lost song ‘Ulterior Motives’ found in obscure ‘80s porn flick
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Free Companies: The age of mercenary companies
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How to judge a book by its cover: What book bindings teach us about readers of the past
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The world's oldest hat shop that fitted James Bond
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B-17 Flying Fortress | Units of History
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The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
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Cocoa price swings are the craziest since the 1970s
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Remembering the time Throbbing Gristle played at a private school (2020)
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What the first astronauts (and cosmonauts) ate - food in space
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Utopian Scholastic
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Does light itself truly have an infinite lifetime?
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Eleanor Johnson on how medieval christian writers accepted ecological collapse in contrast to evangelicals today
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Making the Macintosh: Technology and culture in Silicon Valley
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Zilog discontinues production of original Z80 processor after forty-eight years
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The story of The Oregon Trail
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Oysters: The luxury delicacy that was once a fast-food fad
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Why Frank Lloyd Wright was so good
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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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How The Beverly Hillbillies changed TV
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