Cooking from clay tablets: Babylonian lamb stew
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The hidden worlds of Monopoly – From Atlantic City to high fashion to Karl Marx, the most recognizable board game has had serious cultural impact
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What is systemic racism?
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Someone discovered a new pen name used (probably) by Louisa May Alcott in the 1850s
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What the Prisoner's Dilemma reveals about life, the Universe, and everything
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Historians vibe-check The Gilded Age
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Choose Your Own Adventure - Forty-five years ago, one kids book series taught a generation how to make bad decisions
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Vectrex reborn: How a chance encounter gave new life to a dead console
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1917 US Reserve Ration preserved hard bread cooking review 24 Hour MRE taste test
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Silent Spring (Rachel Carson, 1962)
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History of the Graphical User Interface (GUI): A wonderful curse
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Beating Tetris
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Moki Cherry blended work and life, embodying a free-spirited 1970s vision – daughter Neneh Cherry, and her granddaughter Naima Karlsson recall her life and work
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The making of NHL 94: 30th anniversary documentary
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For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?
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History in ink: Preserving the world’s largest cartoon and comic collection
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Hive cities: Reality or fiction?
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Taser maker Axon has a moving backstory. It's mostly a myth.
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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Why a 100-year supply? How Arizona got its famous, yet arbitrarily numbered groundwater rule.
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The super-secure delivery service that only diplomats can use
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Here's what life was like in 1993, when Detroit Lions were last division champions
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How a child's accidental call to a top-secret phone line launched NORAD's Santa Tracker
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Playing Quake for the story (A franchise retrospective)
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Donkey Kong: A record of struggle
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Conan O’Brien’s wild first year: An oral history - In 1993, NBC made a historic decision—and gave Late Night to a nobody. O’Brien, Letterman, Lorne Michaels, Lisa Kudrow, and more tell all.
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There's a better English alphabet
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The Kikkoman soy sauce bottle is priceless
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Hot Dr Pepper from the 1960s
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The world’s largest earthquake simulator, and how it works
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After 800 years, volcanic activity has returned to Reykjanes – Andri Snær Magnason reflects on the Icelandic relationship with volcanoes
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The first US Army Christmas: Washington and the Hessians
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The history of fruitcake
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Greyhound bus stops are valuable US assets. Here’s who’s cashing in on them.
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Nickelodeon Studios | Abandoned
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The history of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out world records
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The rock that smashed a Scrabble world record
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WWII rescue buoys - Secret 'floating hotels' of the English Channel
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How did Denmark defeat Prussia in 1848?
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Exploring Art Deco architecture's evolution from its 1920s roots to its modern resurgence in Art Deco 2.0
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Egyptian fractions and the greedy algorithm
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In northern Ontario, a dozen First Nations have been left struggling. A court’s attempt to enforce treaty promises could see them getting up to C$126bn.
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Rise of Napoleon's Old Guard (1789-1803) (part 1) | Units of History
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People have been searching for this song from 'The X-Files' for twenty-five years. Until now.
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Life begins at forty: The biological and cultural roots of the midlife crisis
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Cardamom has been a key spice in Swedish culture since medieval times, and now it's popularity in soft, fluffy kardemummabulle is taking the pastry global
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What would Sandra Day O’Connor have thought about affirmative action for men?
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The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
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A matter of millimeters: the story of Qantas flight 32
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Rock Hudson: How a gay truck driver became the biggest star in Hollywood
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