The lost history of the electric car – and what it tells us about the future of transport
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All that and a bag of chips: The history of Frito pie
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The increasingly absurd story of a never-solved 1980s puzzle with a $1,000,000 prize
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Sexist and offensive vintage ads that would never fly today, 1940-1980
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Hampster Economics - Pondering how a meme from a quarter-century ago might have gone over in today’s much-more-mature creator economy
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Lehmer Factor Stencils: A paper factoring machine before computers
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What is chess hustling and how much do chess hustlers make?
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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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Envy
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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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