Wi-Fi just turned twenty, but things could have gone very differently for the now ubiquitous wireless connectivity standard
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The powerful women whose patronage shaped art history
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What happened to the real time strategy genre
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In 1886, the US Government commissioned 7,500 watercolor paintings of every known fruit in the world
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The launch of the Sega Dreamcast
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The time when Zambia tried to go to Mars
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noclip.website - A website that lets you view famous levels from all kinds of games in 3D
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Discovery tour - Ancient Greece
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Lego House is right next to Denmark's Legoland, but way cooler
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Dreamcast twentieth anniversary interview extravaganza
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Where dollar bills come from
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A history of Visa, the credit card company. Part I
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Developers and industry legends on the games that defined the last 20 years
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Why is there cardboard in Dracula?
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Cherokee nation takes up 1835 treaty right and names first delegate to US Congress
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Brains on Film - Documentary about an 80s public access show that praised cult movies
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John W. Campbell Award is renamed after winner criticizes him
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Denmark honours Bernhard Arp Sindberg who rescued thousands of Chinese during the Japanese imperial army's orgy of violence in Nanjing in 1937
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Navajo code talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories
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The scandalous painting that helped create modern art | Édouard Manet's Olympia
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Collector acquires rare Konami Space School cartridge and QTa adapter for Famicom, dumps them for emulation
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After Katrina, a priceless musical archive was thought lost. It showed up in Torrance
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Blink-182’s Peter Pan complex
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Silvio Gesell, who wanted to create money that expired, is making a comeback
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A group of Chinese international students say they take little notice of politics or historical events, with one admitting to not having heard of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
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Kernel Panic - The world's first cyber crime: The Morris Worm
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The survival of Iggy Pop - An inventor of punk rock on his long career, the future, and swimming in Miami
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A short cultural history of tie-dye
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I'm not a robot
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Crab rangoon: How a fusion of at least four cuisines created a beloved and misunderstood dish
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Futurology: how a group of visionaries looked beyond the possible a century ago and predicted today’s world
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"Whipt Cream, Like Snow" (Cream Puffs) | 18th Century Cooking
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The secret of Monkey Island
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Did Venus Williams ever get her due? How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis
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The world's oldest webcam is shutting down after a quarter of a century
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Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot
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How the Daguerreotype started a Victorian black market for pornography in London
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Where Travis Scott - Sicko Mode's weirdest moments came from: Tracing the roots of Jamaican dub music | Vox Earworm
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Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge
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Art Spiegelman: Golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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American capitalism is brutal. You can trace that to the plantation
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On the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook landing in Aotearoa, Ian Taylor is vowing to tell the story of those who came before Cook: the Polynesian celestial navigators.
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Ottoman Wars - Siege of Buda 1541 and Eger 1552
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The subversive messages hidden in "The Wizard of Oz"
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We measured pop music’s falsetto obsession
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Henry Flynt: The meaning of my avant-garde hillbilly and blues music
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Kathleen Hanna on the reign of 'Rebel Girl'
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Disappointed love and dangerous temptations: Textile factories and true crime
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Soviet living: a gallery of 272 photos of ordinary life in the Soviet Union
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A conversation with the team that made bread with 4500-year-old yeast from ancient Egyptian pottery
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