We will curse you - A history of sports fans resorting to performance-enhancing curses, from the Nika riots to the Red Sox
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Artist Mat Collishaw is on a quest to reveal the real woman behind the mask of Elizabeth I, the famously image-conscious monarch
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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The strange and curious tale of the last true hermit
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Near the end of the Middle Ages a device came into service that helped avid readers: the book carousel or book wheel
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Authentically what?
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Tamales are a treat for Día De Los Muertos—and the other 364 days of the year
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How were raisins made before seedless grapes?
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Was Roman concrete better?
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The Digital Antiquarian: Quest for Glory III and IV
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Atari Asteroids: Creating a vector arcade classic
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Time Traveller by Merriam-Webster—Find out when a word was first used in print
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture - Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth
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The origins of speed limits in the US
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Nuclear War (USSR, 1980, by A. Shandro)
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David R. Chan's love of lists and determination never to eat at the same place twice has seen him eat at over 7,300 Chinese restaurants and become an accidental expert on Chinese-American history
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The oldest true stories in the world
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Evolution of Emacs Lisp
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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
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Ten books that defined the 1910s
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The 19th century best-selling author excluded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters
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When pop-up books taught popular science
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The Porsche 959's History Was Way More of a Disaster Than You Know
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The long, long history of long, long CVS receipts
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The rise and demise of RSS
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The love story that upended the Texas prison system
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Germany's plans to win WWI
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King Addies celebrates thirty-five years with '35 Gun Salute' mixtape feat. Fugees, Anita Baker, Nas and more
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The oldest coffee in the world
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A very brief history of the Manx language
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Newly discovered letter by Galileo shows that he lightly edited his original words to appease the Catholic Church
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Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought
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Cheese played a surprisingly important role in human evolution
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Was the chocolate chip cookie dumb luck or Nobel-level genius?
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The very first social network
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The secret story behind Turkish delight
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Where did the term "86" come from?
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Red Letter Media discussing original Psycho
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How the humble pocket calculator morphed into the smartphone
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1787 Beer Soup from Germany - Townsends
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The rise and fall of TLC - the company behind ‘Reader Rabbit’ and all your favorite educational games
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The history of shareware, as told by the people who were there
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Shockwaves from WWII bombing raids reached the edge of space
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A graphic history of the rise of the Nazis
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Cleopatra and the Siege of Alexandria (48 to 47 B.C.E.)
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British Library acquires the St Cuthbert Gospel – the earliest intact European book
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Petrus Gonsalvus and the real Beauty and The Beast story
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When Televisions Were Radioactive - Anxieties about the effects of screens on human health are hardly new, but the way the public addresses the problems has changed
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“Myst” at 25: How it changed gaming, created addicts, and made enemies
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Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity first proven correct at what is now Australian lawn bowls club
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