1980-1989: Rockism faces the world
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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
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One Hit Wonderland: "Oh Yeah" by Yello
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The true story behind Michael Jordan's brief-but-promising baseball career
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Modern Venezuela shows the eerie conclusion of illiberal politics
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Investigating the etymology of "Triscuit"
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What Shakespeare actually did during the plague
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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 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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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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