Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter’s position from the area under a time-velocity graph
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Categorically Gay: For queer people who grew up in an era when rigid identities were essential, today’s fluidity can feel like their history is washing out with the tide.
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Pulse wasn’t about me. But covering it changed me
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Subway history: How OS/2 powered the NYC subway for decades
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A Brief History of the Movie-Summarizing End-Credits Rap
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The surprising truth about Indian food
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Who really invented the periodic table?
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How almonds went from deadly to delicious
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An oral history of Vincent D’Onofrio’s perfect Men in Black ‘sugar water’ scene
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The day the music burned - The 2008 Universal fire was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew
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Ten surprising facts about books of beasts from the European middle ages
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Apollo’s brain: The computer that guided man to the Moon
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Cyprus Crisis 1974
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A vast archive exposed the secret history of kidnapping and assassination in Guatemala. Now it’s under threat
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Colour charts from history
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Reckless in Riyadh: Some American policymakers and scholars are questioning whether the alliance with Saudi Arabia still makes sense for the US
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NYPD, apology for Stonewall not accepted
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Wonderland lost: Forty years ago, Earth, Wind & Fire’s final opus produced disco’s last great moment. My dad was there for all of it.
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Webcomics: An oral history
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NYPD commissioner apologizes for 'oppressive' 1969 raid on Stonewall Inn
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The Digital Antiquarian: Day of the Tentacle
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'Tetris' turns thirty-five
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Tommy Douglas, Canada’s Great Prairie Socialist, Wasn’t Always So Beloved
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The Past as Possibility in the Appalachian South: How chef and Eater Young Gun Ashleigh Shanti centers African-American voices through her cooking
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The fight for rent control
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The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history
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Siege of Damascus 634 AD: Arab - Byzantine Wars Documentary
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American bull - The story of American beef is like the story of the nation as a whole: a mashup of history and myth, bloody and contested
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A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration
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Skywriting - The bizarre art form invented to promote Lucky Strike cigarettes could bounce back in the Instagram age, or it could die with the few people who know how to do it
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Rediscovering the blazingly bright colors of ancient sculptures
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How the sandwich consumed Britain: The world-beating British sandwich industry is worth £8bn a year
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The hidden heroines of chaos
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Thirty years after Tiananmen protests, 'the fight is still going on for China'
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Why over sixty years of animation history still remains obscure
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Atomic veterans were silenced for fifty Years. Now, they’re talking.
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What Game of Thrones got wrong about firebombing
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In a Colombian family’s dementia, a journey through race and history
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The Who worked hard to climb the mountain of rock, and they planted one of their biggest flags fifty years ago with the release of Tommy
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Beer archaeologists are reviving ancient ales — with some strange results
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“Billionaires, bombers, and bellydancers”: How the first Arab American movie star foretold a century of Muslim misrepresentation
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What it felt like: If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?
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Laying out all the evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai did not invent email
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Simply elegant, Morse code marks 175 years and counting
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The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob, Part II | Chart Party
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Machine, Learning, 1951
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The lost Louvre of Uzbekistan: The museum that hid art banned by Stalin
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Sex strikes have a long and controversial history as a tool of women's protest
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Dinosaur diplomacy: Andrew Carnegie thought fossils could save Europe from World War I
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Nothing but the truth: The legacy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
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