Tribes along India-Myanmar border dream of a 'united Nagaland'
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Fruit trenches: Cultivating subtropical plants in freezing temperatures
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A history of vintage electronics: The Guglielmo Marconi Collection and the history of wireless communications
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Scientists stage sword fights to study Bronze Age warfare
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Long-lost US military satellite found by amateur radio operator
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The Hubble Space Telescope launched thirty years ago—then the problems began
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How one man poisoned a city’s water supply (and saved millions of children’s lives in the process)
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Croteam: Croatia's game dev pioneers
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Quantum steampunk: 19th-century science meets technology of today
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How China sees the world - And how the world should see China
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A documentary called 'Mrs America' shows how Phyllis Schlafly partidarized the ERA, birthed the culture war and pioneered modern Conservative rhetoric
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Video of a still functioning 1958 FACOM 128B Japanese Relay Computer
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How we fell in and out of love with the laff box, the laugh track machine that changed sitcoms forever
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Humans have been telling stories and using dice for thousands of years, so why did it take us so long to combine them into role-playing games?
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For eleven years, the Soviet Union had no weekends
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In his book Arcade Game Typography, type designer Toshi Omagari breaks down the evolution, design, and history of arcade game fonts
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Satisfaction: How the Rolling Stones made tequila a hit
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No nails - Frontiersman survival shelter
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How infectious disease defined the American bathroom
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America: 200 years of responding to epidemics from The Saturday Evening Post
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The history of mainstream handwashing only began near the end of the 19th century
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As Coca-Cola’s popularity spread in the United States in the 1920s, rabbis around the country asked, is Coke kosher?
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How Passover brisket became Texas barbecue: From the Shtetl to the smoker
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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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