Pure nostalgia: The oral history of ‘That Thing You Do!’
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George Washington and the first mass US military inoculation
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Viking blood bread
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Shostakovich's symphony played by a starving orchestra (7th, "Leningrad")
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Recording of unreleased John Lennon song up for auction in Denmark – 33-minute audio track was made by four Danish teenagers more than fifty years ago
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Denmark's hippie, psychedelic oasis Christiania turns fifty – celebration over four days includes parades, speeches, exhibitions, workshops, shows and concerts
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The fascinating physics of bowling
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The real first 3D printed buildings (1930s)
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The rise and fall of teletext
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Repairing underground, high voltage power lines is nearly impossible
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The Macedonian Argyraspides (silver shields) | Units of History
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Biz Markie had exactly what hip-hop needed - Rap’s pioneering ‘Clown Prince,’ as remembered by his friends, family, collaborators, and admirers
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The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com
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An oral history of Big Shiny Tunes: The CD that defined a Canadian era
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Three strange river crossings
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The history of tie-dye
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The Roe baby
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A story about living in nature and the value of culture captures the spirit of Finland – Lizzie Enfield explores the remarkable legacy of 'Seitsemän veljestä'
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The great measles immunity heist
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Discovery Channel's Beyond 2000: Wearable Computers (1992)
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Documenting the last pay phones in America
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Why lying about storage products is bad: An IBM DeskStar story
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Ancient Egyptian tiger nut cake
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The Roman invasion of Nubia (24 BC) | Forgotten Wars
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The great American science heist
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The history of the jet: Digital culture built on the seamless speed of the jet age
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A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
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French games used to be weird
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Quake renaissance: A short history of twenty-five years of Quake modding
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The inside story of how the lowly PDF played the longest game in tech
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Life before Unicode
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What if the Morgenthau plan was implemented in Germany after the end of WW2?
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Quake renaissance: Where is Quake now, and how did it get here?
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1Password 8: The story so far
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1800s astronomical drawings vs. NASA images
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Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears
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Swedish ice hockey star Peter Karlsson was stabbed to death in the street in 1995. His killer said he was protecting himself via the so-called 'gay panic' defence
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Remember when multiplayer gaming needed envelopes and stamps? The history of play by mail games
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Doc Gooden's career was over. Then he did the impossible.
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Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage (1989)
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When the Western world ran on guano
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History of the Segway - Dean Kamen's literary agent revisits the story twenty years later to reflect on his contribution to the invention's hype and failure
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Why Adolf Hitler was obsessed with Iceland
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Today is the World Wide Web's 30th birthday - On 6 Aug 1991, Tim Berners-Lee published the first page, and changed the world
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The great myth of the medieval tritone ban
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Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate
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The future of airliners? The plane that may change air travel forever (Boeing X-48)
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How did you find niche stuff before the Internet?
Over in the topic on the perceptions of teenage boys, it was asked, “How did you find niche stuff before the internet?” I thought this was an interesting question and wanted to open it up to hear...
Over in the topic on the perceptions of teenage boys, it was asked, “How did you find niche stuff before the internet?” I thought this was an interesting question and wanted to open it up to hear others’ memories about this.
Edit: Somewhat related, I saw this post today: The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones
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High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful
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A Computer-Generated Ballet (1965) - The first computer-generated animation of human figures in motion
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