How drag queens have sashayed their way through history
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In the late 1970s, Chinatown restaurants in California started booking some unlikely dinner entertainment: the rowdy young bands of the nascent West Coast punk scene
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I am a Jewish Arab
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The oral history of Four Loko in New York
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Was Apollo 11 a beginning or an end? Fifty years after man walked on the Moon, mankind is still stranded on Earth. That’s not the way it was supposed to be.
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How apartheid killed Johannesburg's cycling culture
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A short history of manly beauty products for masculine men
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Our Stories: How Instagram accounts like @lgbt_history and @h_e_r_s_t_o_r_y are weaving queer history into everyday life.
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A generation of hip-hop was given away for free. Can it be archived?
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Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”
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Albert Einstein's relativity document gifted to Nobel museum
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The history of the Elite Beat Agents / Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan series
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Eastern Front of WWII animated: 1944/1945
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The Digital Antiquarian: Sam & Max: Hit the Road
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Born out of love and LSD: Pride Flag creator Gilbert Baker tells all in new memoir
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YouTube is partnering with Universal Music Group to remaster almost 1000 of the most iconic music videos of all time, with over 100 available now
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Varangians - Elite bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors
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Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter’s position from the area under a time-velocity graph
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Categorically Gay: For queer people who grew up in an era when rigid identities were essential, today’s fluidity can feel like their history is washing out with the tide.
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Pulse wasn’t about me. But covering it changed me
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Subway history: How OS/2 powered the NYC subway for decades
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A Brief History of the Movie-Summarizing End-Credits Rap
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The surprising truth about Indian food
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Who really invented the periodic table?
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How almonds went from deadly to delicious
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An oral history of Vincent D’Onofrio’s perfect Men in Black ‘sugar water’ scene
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The day the music burned - The 2008 Universal fire was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew
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Ten surprising facts about books of beasts from the European middle ages
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Apollo’s brain: The computer that guided man to the Moon
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Cyprus Crisis 1974
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A vast archive exposed the secret history of kidnapping and assassination in Guatemala. Now it’s under threat
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Colour charts from history
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Reckless in Riyadh: Some American policymakers and scholars are questioning whether the alliance with Saudi Arabia still makes sense for the US
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NYPD, apology for Stonewall not accepted
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Wonderland lost: Forty years ago, Earth, Wind & Fire’s final opus produced disco’s last great moment. My dad was there for all of it.
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Webcomics: An oral history
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NYPD commissioner apologizes for 'oppressive' 1969 raid on Stonewall Inn
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The Digital Antiquarian: Day of the Tentacle
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'Tetris' turns thirty-five
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Tommy Douglas, Canada’s Great Prairie Socialist, Wasn’t Always So Beloved
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The Past as Possibility in the Appalachian South: How chef and Eater Young Gun Ashleigh Shanti centers African-American voices through her cooking
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The fight for rent control
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The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history
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Siege of Damascus 634 AD: Arab - Byzantine Wars Documentary
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American bull - The story of American beef is like the story of the nation as a whole: a mashup of history and myth, bloody and contested
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A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration
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Skywriting - The bizarre art form invented to promote Lucky Strike cigarettes could bounce back in the Instagram age, or it could die with the few people who know how to do it
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Rediscovering the blazingly bright colors of ancient sculptures
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How the sandwich consumed Britain: The world-beating British sandwich industry is worth £8bn a year
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The hidden heroines of chaos
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