The oldest true stories in the world
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Evolution of Emacs Lisp
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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
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Ten books that defined the 1910s
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The 19th century best-selling author excluded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters
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When pop-up books taught popular science
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The Porsche 959's History Was Way More of a Disaster Than You Know
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The long, long history of long, long CVS receipts
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The rise and demise of RSS
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The strange triumph of “The Little Prince”
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Germany's plans to win WWI
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King Addies celebrates thirty-five years with '35 Gun Salute' mixtape feat. Fugees, Anita Baker, Nas and more
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The oldest coffee in the world
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A very brief history of the Manx language
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Newly discovered letter by Galileo shows that he lightly edited his original words to appease the Catholic Church
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How a teenage girl became the mother of horror: Mary Shelley combined science and the supernatural to write Frankenstein, the world’s first science-fiction novel
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Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought
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Cheese played a surprisingly important role in human evolution
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Was the chocolate chip cookie dumb luck or Nobel-level genius?
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The very first social network
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The secret story behind Turkish delight
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Where did the term "86" come from?
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Red Letter Media discussing original Psycho
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How the humble pocket calculator morphed into the smartphone
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1787 Beer Soup from Germany - Townsends
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The rise and fall of TLC - the company behind ‘Reader Rabbit’ and all your favorite educational games
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The history of shareware, as told by the people who were there
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Shockwaves from WWII bombing raids reached the edge of space
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A graphic history of the rise of the Nazis
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Cleopatra and the Siege of Alexandria (48 to 47 B.C.E.)
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British Library acquires the St Cuthbert Gospel – the earliest intact European book
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Petrus Gonsalvus and the real Beauty and The Beast story
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When Televisions Were Radioactive - Anxieties about the effects of screens on human health are hardly new, but the way the public addresses the problems has changed
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“Myst” at 25: How it changed gaming, created addicts, and made enemies
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Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity first proven correct at what is now Australian lawn bowls club
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Meet the guy tasked with archiving Prince’s entire vault
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How did salt and pepper become the soulmates of Western cuisine?
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Communist robot dreams
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How Asia got crazy rich - Toward a materialist history of Crazy Rich Asians
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It's been five years already, let's gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's bloodbath
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Wizards, Moomins and pirates: The magic and mystery of literary maps
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Inside the eight desperate weeks that saved SpaceX from ruin
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Dear Developer, The Web Isn't About You
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How auto-tune revolutionized the sound of popular music
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Haruki Murakami Introduces The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
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How Marvel ruined Wonder Woman! - Weird comic book history explained
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The cat meme photographer from a century ago
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A history of Johannesburg in ten dishes. The dishes that explain the history of South Africa’s Gold Rush City.
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How one man is recreating lost colors
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100 years before drones, in search of better aerial photography, Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism and created a remarkable body of images.
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