The lone prospectors keeping the legacy of the gold rush alive
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On the nature of ancient evidence
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25th anniversary interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon’s creator, Chris Sawyer
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The Matrix forever changed the craft of Hollywood filmmaking
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Children predict the year 2000 (1966, video)
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Oslo community club KFUM will make their Eliteserien debut next week after an incredible rise through the Norwegian divisions
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Analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven’s DNA revealed that he had a low genetic predisposition for musical ability
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The Ladoga was the Soviet Union’s plush nuclear-war command vehicle. A drone just blew one up in Eastern Ukraine.
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“But the ancient Greeks didn’t *sound* Irish…” On capturing voice in historical fiction
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SNES piracy in the 1990s - disk copiers
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NASCAR acquires the first paved track it ever raced on
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‘X-Men ’97’ bridges the X-Men’s past and future
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Can a movie change the law? The 1961 film 'Victim' isn't just a tense thriller, it was crafted to serve as a stealthy challenge to a British law that criminalized the very existence of homosexuals.
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Will there ever be another great men’s college basketball team?
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Why the 2% inflation target?
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Let's Build: USMC M4A2 Sherman from Saipan 1944 (Dragon 1/35)
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Writer, woman, playwright, spy: Aphra Behn, author of Oroonoko was the first known woman to be paid for writing in English
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From Red Riding Hood to Beowulf: On the essential role of literary reimaginings
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How TV went from bad to great
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Ancient Beat - the newsletter of ancient history - celebrates its 100th Issue
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Bread in the Middle Ages
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The best footballer Finland has ever produced, Jari Litmanen reflects on the highs and lows of his career and his anonymous life today in Estonia
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When Virginia Woolf wrote about early women writers, she was unaware of or underestimated a few published Elizabethan women
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The right to change sex
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How user groups made software reuse a reality
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I found Frank Herbert’s Dune script. It’s hard to imagine a weirder film version of Dune than the one David Lynch released in 1984, but Frank Herbert found a way. Dune: Part Two is better.
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Spacesuits need a major upgrade for the next phase of exploration
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How Jim Heimann got crazy for California architecture
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Shock of the old: the amazing, infuriating history of the electric car – in pictures
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100 years later, long-lost silent film found in Omaha auction
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The oldest unsolved problem in math. Do odd perfect numbers exist?
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Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses”
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"The biggest myth in speedrunning history": A cosmic ray didn't help a Mario 64 speedrunner
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World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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Join me on the path to Twilightenment
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Henrik Larsson: ‘I have 106 caps for Sweden but I see myself as foreign’
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The history of blindfolded Super Mario 64
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The road to 'The Road to El Dorado' - The making of an animated cult classic
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A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 70s
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Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives
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The food of war and isolation - International influences on Russian sausage cuisine
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The decimal point is 150 years older than previously thought, medieval manuscript reveals
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Selling subversion
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Weird Wings: The M-21, an A-12 (SR-71 Blackbird predecessor) modified to launch a drone for recon missions over China in the 60s
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The revolutionary spirit of Soul Train
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'Copa 71' - the Lost Lionesses and the forgotten 1971 women's World Cup
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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
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Indexing the information age - Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable
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The United States of barbecue, mapsplained
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