Architecture lovers can spend the night in a modernist masterpiece designed by Alvar Aalto – former TB sanatorium is now Finland's most unusual holiday let
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The story of when washing hands was considered crazy
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The odd history of goalie masks
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Bowling in the 1700’s? - Full "Skittles" gameplay | Engineering America
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The elaborate story behind "Shia LaBeouf" Live
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There was never a band like Rush. Geddy Lee doesn’t want to forget it.
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How a tiny pacific island became a global capital of cybercrime
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I found a hobby
For years people have been telling me I should get a hobby, something to occupy my mind with, something I enjoy. I finally found one. I've always enjoyed aimlessly wondering about, seeing what I...
For years people have been telling me I should get a hobby, something to occupy my mind with, something I enjoy.
I finally found one. I've always enjoyed aimlessly wondering about, seeing what I can see along the way, and now I have something specific to look out for on my aimless wanderings. It also helps document an aspect of our past that is rapidly disappearing as gentrification and redevelopment continues apace in all our urban and industrial areas.
The entry barrier is low as well. All you need is mobility of some form, and a camera capable of taking reasonably good images, something most smartphones have these days
https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/features/ghost-signs/
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Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (1976)
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Denmark is building on the success of blockbuster drugs – the country's focus on reinvestment is feeding a stream of discovery
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Ghosts of the '72 Miami Dolphins
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A brief history of onions in America
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Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (1984)
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Subversive, queer and terrifyingly relevant: six reasons why Moby-Dick is the novel for our times (2019)
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Taylor Swift played her cards better than we could have imagined
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1980s interview with Christine Jorgensen, one of the first publicly trangender women in the United States
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Why everyone hates this concrete building, and why brutalism dominates US college campuses
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Big brother, little brother | Shaq vs Kobe
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Speedrunning GoldenEye's most iconic level is changed forever
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The curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas
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The botched hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer
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Is The Gilded Age's opera war based on a true story?
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The insane engineering of the F-16
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'Louie Louie': The story behind the song everyone knows but no one understands
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The first ten days of Mario Wonder speedrunning
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California man has gone viral for making and eating a historical or weird sandwich on camera every day
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SolarPunk vs CyberPunk: Our cities' last hope?
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The genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health
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The US tried permanent daylight saving time in the ’70s. People hated it.
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Coming up short: The crash of MarkAir flight 3087
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Net neutrality is about more than just blocking and throttling, don't be fooled by attempts to limit the discussion to these concepts
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A brief history of tricky mathematical tiling
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Two men arrested in an investigation into a famous tree that was felled near Hadrian's Wall in England
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Skateboard exhibition displays their elevated style
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From Skinny Jeans to Doc Martens: a (short) history of America’s culture wars in fashion
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How Lisp became god's own programming language (2018)
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Trial testimony - Google considered and rejected creating a form of search that doesn't track users history from website to website
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Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years.
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Cogs in the machine: The crash of Colgan Air flight 3407 and its legacy
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Internet Artifacts
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How the Blitz enhanced London’s economy (2018)
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In 1886, a US agency set out to record new fruit varieties. The results are wondrous
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Asin tibuok, nicknamed the dinosaur egg, is one of the rarest salts in the world. Only a few families on a small island in the Philippines still make it. | Still Standing
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Sculpting a 16th century alchemy dragon
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The costs of not investing in American public infrastructure, research, and education
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In Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese aims a righteous fury at American history
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Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
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Why the Early Modern Period is the most underrated era in European history
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The Zone of Interest | Official trailer
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The Silk Road: Eight goods traded along the ancient network
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