Stonewall changed the course of queer history. These artworks captured the aftermath
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The marathon runner history forgot
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The disco invention that changed pop music: The twelve-inch single
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How the US military's opium war in Afghanistan was lost
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Christopher Columbus' son had an enormous library. Its catalog was just found
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"It was a staple of baseball debate that the curveball just might be an optical illusion."
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Meet your iPhone’s grandparent
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Long-lost shipwreck found off Victorian coast, seventy-seven years after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine in WWII
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Biosphere 2 - The lost history of one of the world’s strangest science experiments
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A twenty year old Doom record was finally broken
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The History Behind Osamu Tezuka's Dororo
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Behind Gor, a ‘slave master’ subculture of sexual deviance
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The cataclysmic break that (maybe) occurred in 1950
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The source code for all Infocom text adventures/interactive fiction is now on Github
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The Hitler Beetle and other oddities of scientific naming
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Caesar in Britannia and Germania
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The golf ball that made golfers too good
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Triumph of the will and the cinematic language of propaganda
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'A model of hope for the world': Twenty-five years after Rwandan Genocide, new film shows journey toward justice and healing
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The rapid rise and slow fall of the Microsoft web browser
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The general was female? ASU professor, colleague uncover 200-year-old mystery from the American Revolution
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You can never go home to GeoCities again - The new video games Hypnospace and Wrong Box offer up complicated nostalgia for the internet of yesterday
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The story of the 3dfx Voodoo1
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A gallery of 80s political cartoons condeming video games
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The Tezuka Revue: How an all-woman theatre troupe influenced the Godfather of Manga
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Oh no! The depressing truth about the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory workers
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Why there's so little left of the early internet
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When giant scorpions swarmed the seas
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000
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Time is a flat ferris wheel: The enduring legacy of ‘RollerCoaster Tycoon’
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Ancient Greek music: Now we finally know what it sounded like
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The History of Video | Veritasium
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The Matrix at twenty: How the sci-fi gamechanger remains influential
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A painting long thought to be a fake Botticelli turned out to be real. British conservators confirmed the authenticity of “Madonna of the Pomegranate” via X-ray and infrared tests.
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The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present
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Recreating the World's Oldest Tart Recipe | Munchies
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For sale: This massive, obsessive and (probably) obsolete VHS boxing archive
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A history of pizza
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Top Scores - From Pong to Red Dead: Can video game music change the way you play?
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M-16: A bureaucratic horror story
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Intransigence: A social history of the internet
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From the clavichord to the modern piano
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The Digital Antiquarian: Darklands - The first CRPG ever released by MicroProse Software
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A journey to the "Disappointment Islands", a remote area of Polynesia that hasn't had a visitor in decades
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Vivian Cherry: A lifetime photographing New York's streets – in pictures
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500 million years of climate history pinned on plate tectonics
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The cigarette company that reinvented television news
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From 2003 to 2007 a 24 year old Iraqi woman in Baghdad kept an online diary. In chronicling life under occupation the blogger "Riverbend" gave a perspective largely missing from English media.
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Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s
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The lost worlds of telnet
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