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19 votes
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Four days trapped at sea with crypto’s nouveau riche
16 votes -
Sega Dreamcast at twenty: The futuristic games console that came too soon
28 votes -
Identification of key films and personalities in the history of cinema from a Western perspective
Identification of key films and personalities in the history of cinema from a Western perspective Top 20 movies by influence centrality The Wizard of Oz (1939) Star Wars (1977) Psycho (1960) King...
Identification of key films and personalities in the history of cinema from a Western perspective
Top 20 movies by influence centrality
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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Star Wars (1977)
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Psycho (1960)
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King Kong (1933)
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Metropolis (1927)
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Citizen Kane (1941)
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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
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Frankenstein (1931)
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
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Casablanca (1942)
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Dracula (1931)
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The Godfather (1972)
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Jaws (1975)
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
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The Searchers (1956)
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Cabiria (1914)
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
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Bronenosets Potemkin (1925)
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If you could choose to live out your entire life in any time and place in history, what would you choose and why?
There are many periods and places of history that are romantic to me, but I wonder which would have been the best/most interesting to actually live in.
18 votes -
The birthplace of the modern apple
6 votes -
Will Britain’s beaten, betrayed migrant children find justice at last? Thousands forcibly sent to the Commonwealth from 1945-70 still await compensation – and for many time is running out
5 votes -
The fax is not yet obsolete
10 votes -
The single biggest layoff in Canadian history
6 votes -
Last surviving Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in landmark ruling
7 votes -
Navy training video - Mechanical computers [1953]
6 votes -
The rise and fall of turkey brining
8 votes -
Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
14 votes -
Three feet from God: An oral history of Nirvana ‘Unplugged’
5 votes -
‘Amazing Grace’ film review: Aretha Franklin lives in this resplendent gospel concert film
5 votes -
How bicycles have changed in the last twenty-five years
25 votes -
Tetris Effect and the evolution of Tetris
5 votes -
We Wish to Plead Our Own Cause: The past and future of America’s black press
7 votes -
Every city should have a toy library
11 votes -
An error message in Windows 10 is a mistake from 1974
@foone🏳️⚧️: It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974.This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windows 10, dates back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as old as Watergate. pic.twitter.com/pPbkZiE57t
32 votes -
One hundred years on, the scars from World War I linger on Australia's streets and in our psyche.
6 votes -
These men ate poison so you could have the FDA
14 votes -
We will curse you - A history of sports fans resorting to performance-enhancing curses, from the Nika riots to the Red Sox
5 votes -
Artist Mat Collishaw is on a quest to reveal the real woman behind the mask of Elizabeth I, the famously image-conscious monarch
4 votes -
At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
9 votes -
The strange and curious tale of the last true hermit
9 votes -
Near the end of the Middle Ages a device came into service that helped avid readers: the book carousel or book wheel
14 votes -
Authentically what?
8 votes -
Tamales are a treat for Día De Los Muertos—and the other 364 days of the year
5 votes -
How were raisins made before seedless grapes?
6 votes -
What defines a kilogram? Before standardization, units of measurement were often manipulated by tyrants to cheat peasants and steal land.
9 votes -
How the tuberculosis epidemic influenced modernist architecture
6 votes -
Was Roman concrete better?
6 votes -
The Digital Antiquarian: Quest for Glory III and IV
6 votes -
Atari Asteroids: Creating a vector arcade classic
9 votes -
Time Traveller by Merriam-Webster—Find out when a word was first used in print
9 votes -
Hidden for seventy years, a new invaluable contribution to Holocaust literature—the diary of Renia Spiegel—was rediscovered inside a desk in New York
13 votes -
How curry became a Japanese naval tradition
9 votes -
The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture - Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth
16 votes -
How The X-Files invented modern television: Twenty-five years after its debut, The X-Files is that rare show that seems to exist both in the time it aired and in the present.
7 votes -
The origins of speed limits in the US
5 votes -
Nuclear War (USSR, 1980, by A. Shandro)
13 votes -
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
9 votes -
The oldest true stories in the world
6 votes -
Evolution of Emacs Lisp
7 votes -
What we can learn from college football’s very first AP Poll, where Minnesota was No. 1
4 votes -
The evolution of the New York City pizza slice shop
10 votes -
Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
5 votes -
The poison squad: One chemist’s single-minded crusade for food safety at the turn of the twentieth century
6 votes -
Ten books that defined the 1910s
10 votes