The National Library of Scotland has digitized the first eight editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, issued between 1768 and 1860
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Growing up in Quarantineland: Childhood nightmares in the age of germs prepared me for coronavirus
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The history of Turkey until Atatürk
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Civil rights icon Joseph Lowery has died at 98
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The story of the hijacking of Eastern Airlines Flight 1320 in 1970: The first hijacked US flight with a fatality, which led to many of the modern airline security measures
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How astronaut Nick Hague survived an aborted Soyuz flight
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Why Adolf Hitler lost the war: German strategic mistakes in WWII
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The Taisho era and how the Japanese army put an end to it
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How the 1957 flu pandemic was stopped early in its path
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In the ’60s, America’s wearable art movement reflected true counterculture
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The quest to beat Matt Turk's World Records in Punch-Out!! (NES)
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Chloroquine, past and present
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Capitalism’s favorite drug: The dark history of how coffee took over the world
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ASCII art and permadeath: The history of roguelike games
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Why didn't anyone copy the Roman army? - The imitation legions
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Book review: Hoover
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A short history of banned games in Germany
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An interview with Masayuki Uemura, the engineer who designed the Famicom and helped take Nintendo into video games
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Watch the rare 1997 Blur documentary as the band travel to Iceland, Faroe Islands and Greenland
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The coronavirus called America’s bluff: Like Japan in the mid-1800s, the United States now faces a crisis that disproves everything the country believes about itself
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Greenland glacier collapse – a new study combining historical photos with evidence from ocean sediments suggests climate change was already at work in the 1930s
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Vintage ads: Selling health and hygiene during the 1918 pandemic
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Floodlines - An eight-part narrative podcast thoroughly reassessing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, fifteen years later
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Why medieval cats look like… that
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The "Nintendo PlayStation" prototype was purchased at auction for $300,000 by Greg McLemore, founder of Pets.com who now runs the International Arcade Museum
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Explosive barrels
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Rum rations in the navy during the 18th century: Grog
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The genesis of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic
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Listen to one of the five guitars still in existence manufactured by legendary instrument maker Antonio Stradivari
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The story of the PS2’s backwards compatibility by Tetsuya Iida, the engineer who built it
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Sweden's Melodifestivalen is celebrating its 60th year – why a national Eurovision show won global fans
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The history of the URL
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Reply All #158 - The Case of the Missing Hit
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The BMW logo – meaning and history
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The growth of command line options, 1979 - present
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The awakening of Norman Rockwell
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The twenty-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained
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Origin and evolution of playing card designs
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VHSVault - A large VHSRip archive has been posted to the Internet Archive
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"Pyke notte thy nostrellys." A 15th-century guide on children's manners has been digitized for first time
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Knitting’s tangled history: From aristocrats to punks, the humble yarn has spun its way through centuries of social change
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The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)
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From Nelson's apple to beef wellington: How war changes the way we eat
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Covid-19 could mark the end of affluence politics in the USA, as the possibility of a global pandemic reveals the inability to make and distribute the things people need
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The Pope's Astronomer, Telescopes, & Space Rocks
Three related videos of Brady Haran in Italy interviewing Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of The Vatican Observatory, were released today on his various channels... and rather than submit them...
Three related videos of Brady Haran in Italy interviewing Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of The Vatican Observatory, were released today on his various channels... and rather than submit them individually:
The Pope's Astronomer - Sixty Symbols
The Pope's Telescopes - Deep Sky Videos
The Pope's Space Rocks - Objectivity #2216 votes -
"Theire Soe Admirable Herbe": How the English Found Cannabis
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Myst (or, the drawbacks to success)
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Dr. Michael Hudson: Economic lessons (from 2008) for 2020
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Gopher: When adversarial interoperability burrowed under the gatekeepers' fortresses
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Decades-old photography from the U-2 spy program now offers a time machine to see traces of the historical and ancient past
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