A piece of kitchen art sold for $26 million. A long-lost painting by Italian pre-Renaissance artist Cimabue had been hanging above a stove in an elderly French woman’s home.
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The evolution of urban planning in ten diagrams
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Killing time during the Trojan War with Ajax and Achilles
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Book Review: French Tanks of the Great War
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Digging up Woodstock: An archaeological investigation of the famous festival site unearthed evidence hidden in the haze of memory
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How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac
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Medieval Fighting Techniques - Mounted vs Foot (Lance vs Polearm & Sword)
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Martyr of Verdun: Émile Driant's Command Post
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The not-com bubble is popping—The unicorn massacre unfolding today is exactly the opposite of what happened in 2000
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The Internet and the Third Estate
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'The perfect combination of art and science': Mourning the end of paper maps
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How art created stereotypes of the Arab world
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Florida fruit crate labels, 1920s-1950s
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Beautiful tomboys of the 1930s
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Lasers reveal 60,000 ancient Maya structures in Guatemala
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Ringed on all sides by the UK but not actually part of it, residents of the Isle of Man value their independence
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A brief history of the bar foot rail
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Ken Thompson's Unix password
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Why are plastic army men still from WW2?
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The first video game
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Ten years ago, Balloon Boy captivated the country. For the first time, we reveal the true story behind the hoax.
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The story of the IBM Pentium 4 64-bit CPU
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GTA Online is six years old today, a look at GTA Online over the years
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How big oil of the past helped launch the solar industry of today
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October 1 1989 – Thirty years after Denmark became the first country to allow same-sex couples to register in legal unions
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Microscopically reweaving a 1907 painting
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Down to seven vets, Pearl Harbor survivors' group in California holds final meeting
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Sid Meier discusses Civilization's original design as a real-time strategy game and the transition to turn-based | War Stories
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Today marks the 18th anniversary since Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak was arrested and put in an Eritrean prison
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The secret gay history of Islam. In Muslim cultures, homosexuality was once considered the most normal thing in the world – so what changed?
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Stieg Larsson and the unsolved murder case of Olof Palme
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The tangled history of spaghetti bolognese
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How Chagall’s daughter smuggled his work out of Nazi-occupied Europe
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Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding
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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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