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How Berlin's Mietskaserne tenements became coveted urban housing
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Why Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years
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What’s behind the iconic floor plan of London
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When Minneapolis segregated
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Previously unseen footage of David Bowie has been released. The thirty minutes of experimental film was for a hologram.
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What happened to the news?
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From their balloons, the first aeronauts transformed our view of the world
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So long, salt and vinegar: How crisp flavours went from simple to sensational
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Enron: The biggest fraud in all of history
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Sweden's Rök runestone reveals inscriptions were as much about climate change fears as they were the history of ancient battles
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The original Game of Life was quite different from the one we have now
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Too lazy to work out? Machines that exercise for you, from Victorian era to now.
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That time the Mediterranean Sea disappeared
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Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway, 1940–1945 – Tony Insall
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The tragedy of art’s greatest supermodel
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On the PlayStation 2's 20th anniversary, the former bosses of Sony Computer Entertainment UK, Europe and US take us behind the scenes of the console's launch
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1996 talk by Cliff Stoll about the future of computers and the internet
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America’s first opioid epidemic: As the country struggles with a terrible opioid crisis, we remember a similar epidemic that raged through the US in the 1800s
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Sweden dodged a bullet by not building this nuclear submarine – the reactor had an insufficient amount of nuclear shielding
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The man who made Wolfenstein
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Top 10 Web Design Styles of 1993 (Vernacular Web 3) - Prof. Dr. Style
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Every year's most iconic video game since 1979 explained
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Tight breeches and loose gowns: Going deep on the fashion of Jane Austen
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We're Britain's first female rock band. This is why you don't know us. | 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs
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How this abandoned mining town in Greenland helped win World War II
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Wars of the Roses 1455-1487 - English Civil Wars
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Soviets in Afhghanistan: The invasion that changed everything
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The Original IBM PC 5150 - The story of the world's most influential computer
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Film: The reason some of the past was in HD
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The most important invention of the 20th century: Transistors
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What happened to giant Ekranoplans?
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What if the nuke was never invented?
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The time when capitalism went too far
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When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of ten sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster.
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Frappe Snowland: The history of Mario Kart 64's most broken track
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Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane – analysis of birch tar describes a female hunter-gatherer with dark skin and blue eyes
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AIM was the killer app of 1997. It’s still shaping the internet today.
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The lie that helped build Nintendo
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The curious case of the US Government’s influence on 20th-century design
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The story of Freedom Ship
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Roman Castra - How legionaries built and lived in their fortresses
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Lovers in Auschwitz, reunited seventy-two years later. He had one question
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Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler: Words by year of appearance
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PlayStation: The first twenty-five years - An oral history of Sony’s big gaming play, and how it changed the world
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Lost piece of gaming history uncovered
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The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers: One PlayStation can play a game, but 100 PlayStations can peer into the secrets of the universe
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From Stevie Wonder to 'Mother Earth's Plantasia,' music for plants is real
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The Therac-25: Thirty years later
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The intoxicating history of gin
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