The most important invention of the 20th century: Transistors
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The curious case of the US Government’s influence on 20th-century design
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How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac
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Florida fruit crate labels, 1920s-1950s
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Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died
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Art Spiegelman: Golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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How watermelon's reputation got tangled in racism
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Apollo 11 in real time
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For forty years, crashing trains was one of America’s favorite pastimes
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Finland's Munch – The unnerving art of Helene Schjerfbeck
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How apartheid killed Johannesburg's cycling culture
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No Spanish allowed: Texas school museum revisits history of segregation
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Goodbye, show world: The last days of Times Square’s peep shows
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Vivian Cherry: A lifetime photographing New York's streets – in pictures
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An interesting essay about Lois Weber, once the highest-paid director in Hollywood, her works now all but forgotten
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The Reese’s Piece: How a series of creative ads helped Reese’s peanut butter cups—and later, candy-coated peanut butter candies—conquer the world
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How we lost our ambitions for the tech-enabled home
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Will Britain’s beaten, betrayed migrant children find justice at last? Thousands forcibly sent to the Commonwealth from 1945-70 still await compensation – and for many time is running out
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Becoming Anne Frank - Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?
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Shockwaves from WWII bombing raids reached the edge of space
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A graphic history of the rise of the Nazis
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The cat meme photographer from a century ago
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100 years before drones, in search of better aerial photography, Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism and created a remarkable body of images.
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Even before electricity, robots freaked people out
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The bookmobiles: Vintage photos of traveling libraries, 1910s-1960s
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Basil Banghart, an incredibly interesting American criminal, burglar and prison escape artist
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