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The making of Amazon Prime - An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever
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Why big companies squander brilliant ideas
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The Croc That Ran on Hooves
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…and in the end there will be the command line.
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The remarkable story of a woman who preserved over thirty years of TV history
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Who stole Dorothy’s ruby slippers from Judy Garland’s hometown? The inside story of the epic, thirteen-year quest to find them.
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The hurdy gurdy | Down the rabbit hole
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Ayrton Senna: Twenty-five years since F1 lost its flawed, fascinating hero
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The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob, Part I | Chart Party
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The telegraph was America's first singularity
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Stonewall changed the course of queer history. These artworks captured the aftermath
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The marathon runner history forgot
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The disco invention that changed pop music: The twelve-inch single
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How the US military's opium war in Afghanistan was lost
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Christopher Columbus' son had an enormous library. Its catalog was just found
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"It was a staple of baseball debate that the curveball just might be an optical illusion."
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Meet your iPhone’s grandparent
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Long-lost shipwreck found off Victorian coast, seventy-seven years after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine in WWII
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Biosphere 2 - The lost history of one of the world’s strangest science experiments
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A twenty year old Doom record was finally broken
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The History Behind Osamu Tezuka's Dororo
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Behind Gor, a ‘slave master’ subculture of sexual deviance
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The cataclysmic break that (maybe) occurred in 1950
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The source code for all Infocom text adventures/interactive fiction is now on Github
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The Hitler Beetle and other oddities of scientific naming
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Caesar in Britannia and Germania
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The golf ball that made golfers too good
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Triumph of the will and the cinematic language of propaganda
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'A model of hope for the world': Twenty-five years after Rwandan Genocide, new film shows journey toward justice and healing
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The rapid rise and slow fall of the Microsoft web browser
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The general was female? ASU professor, colleague uncover 200-year-old mystery from the American Revolution
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You can never go home to GeoCities again - The new video games Hypnospace and Wrong Box offer up complicated nostalgia for the internet of yesterday
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The story of the 3dfx Voodoo1
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A gallery of 80s political cartoons condeming video games
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The Tezuka Revue: How an all-woman theatre troupe influenced the Godfather of Manga
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Oh no! The depressing truth about the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory workers
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Why there's so little left of the early internet
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When giant scorpions swarmed the seas
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000
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Time is a flat ferris wheel: The enduring legacy of ‘RollerCoaster Tycoon’
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Ancient Greek music: Now we finally know what it sounded like
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The History of Video | Veritasium
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The Matrix at twenty: How the sci-fi gamechanger remains influential
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A painting long thought to be a fake Botticelli turned out to be real. British conservators confirmed the authenticity of “Madonna of the Pomegranate” via X-ray and infrared tests.
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The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present
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Recreating the World's Oldest Tart Recipe | Munchies
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For sale: This massive, obsessive and (probably) obsolete VHS boxing archive
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A history of pizza
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Top Scores - From Pong to Red Dead: Can video game music change the way you play?
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