Quentin Tarantino and Sylvester Stallone are teaming for a 1930s-set series filming in black and white with “1930s cameras”
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Ready for "the real McCoy"? It was designed to exploit Prohibition, and get smuggled into America by a man who became a legend.
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Paintings of paintings
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The world's most annoying road | Map Men
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I before she — on the shift in narrative perspective in romance novels
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Consider the pigeon, a surprisingly capable technology (2019)
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'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
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Rasmus Dahlin hasn't just improved his own game, he has dragged the entire team and altered the trajectory of the Buffalo Sabres franchise
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Using procedural generation to create the 10,000 landscapes in The Sentinel
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Tony Hoare (1934-2026)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases three-dimensional renderings of dozens of holdings
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An interview with a man who restores baseball gloves
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GNU and the AI reimplementations
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Mazed is a collection of the traditional tales of Cornwall, each with a map showing the tale's location
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Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text
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All episodes from ReBoot have been pulled from their master tapes and have been digitized
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A collection of pulpits designed to look like fish
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The earthling’s guide to building a Moon base
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Shigeru Miyamoto x Shigesato Itoi (1989)
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The big lie about the origin of manga
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How far back in time can you understand English?
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Iceland is one of the few western countries that has never hosted a professional boxing fight. That ends on April 10.
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TV’s TV (1987) & TV Games Encyclopedia (1988)
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Stone Age boy in Sweden was buried in deerskin and a woodpecker headdress, archaeologists discover
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The US Library of Congress has found and restored a long-lost silent film by Georges Méliès
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When video games were brown
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Inside the quixotic team trying to build an entire world in a twenty-year-old game
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Cash-issuing terminals
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Ancient stepwells brought back to life as India begins to run out of water
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Netflix announces its highly anticipated documentary on the 2022 chess scandal, involving Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann, will premiere on April 7th
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Sweden has been part of the EU for thirty years, yet is one of the few to have kept their own currency – could global tensions finally see them warming towards the euro
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United Airlines Flight 232 lost all hydraulics mid-air. This is the story of the “impossible landing".
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Why are American passenger trains slow?
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Nikola Tesla's weird eating habits
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17th century Swedish Navy shipwreck buried underwater in central Stockholm for 400 years has suddenly become visible due to unusually low Baltic Sea levels
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Ian's Shoelace Site is still the best site for tying your shoes
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The complicated origin of the expression ‘peanut gallery’
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What are important historical books lost to time?
Not just books from the 1800s or 1900s, but even older. 1400s, 800s, 100s, books from BCE, etc. It can be fiction or non-fiction. If a small blurb about the book could be provided and its...
Not just books from the 1800s or 1900s, but even older. 1400s, 800s, 100s, books from BCE, etc. It can be fiction or non-fiction.
If a small blurb about the book could be provided and its significance that would be great.
Additionally, if you could help direct me or provide guidance on where I can get a hold of the book (digitally or physically), that’d be appreciated.
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Stockholm's metro stations really do look this cool in person – let me show you what I saw while visiting the city
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Norway's men's curling team delighted supporters at the 2026 Winter Olympics by reviving the famous red, white and blue-patterned trousers that became a sensation sixteen years ago
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Swedes searching for their Colombian mothers forty years after their adoptions – government acknowledges processes were plagued with irregularities, from theft of babies to falsified documents
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The tiny details in Red Dead Redemption 2 you weren't meant to notice
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Inside the lab that changed psychedelics forever (full tour)
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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast [1991] vs Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête [1946] (2015)
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The King got this “illegal” whisky — The distiller got threats | Blind Booze
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The Finisher: Jasmin Paris and the Barkley Marathons (full documentary)
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Eight iconic Nordic homes throughout history that reveal the origins of Scandi style – all emerge from a distinctive vision of "soft modernism" that still influences how we live now
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Finland's poetic masterpiece, the Kalevala, has roots in two cultures and two countries
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What About Bob? — The most tense film production of the '90s
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On ancient migrations
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