Pentimento: When painters change their minds and the past peeks through
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A timeline of White House renovations through the years
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Pioneering Finnish artist Claire Aho brought wit, verve and cinematic flair to postwar photography – a new exhibition celebrates her vibrant visual style
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Over 200 years after being sunk by the British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson, one of Denmark's most famous warships has been discovered at the bottom of Copenhagen Harbor
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Moomins are the billion dollar comic franchise Americans don't know about
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Norway's cherished Eastertime obsession of retreating to isolated cabins to binge crime fiction
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Fan-translation projects - thirty-three years of history
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Tattooing in the American Civil War was a hedge against anonymous death
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ENIAC’s 80th anniversary: a legacy of innovation
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Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church
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Revisiting a 1958 map of space mysteries
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The Candlemakers' Petition by Frédéric Bastiat (1845)
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Gold eyes worst month against oil since 1973; mining stocks slump most since 2008
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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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