Elvis Costello created a mammoth list of the 500 most essential albums in music history
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Burial at sea: The fall of Maddox, the internet’s first “outsider” celebrity
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The oral history of the Super Soaker - How a NASA engineer accidentally invented the greatest water gun of all time
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Welcome to the world of Manga! #MangaMonth
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The oral history of the Super Soaker
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In parts of Europe from the 14th to 19th centuries, some divorces were decided through "Impotence Trials"
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Nardwuar vs. The Roots (Questlove & Black Thought) (2019)
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Ottoman Wars - Battles of Gorjani and Castelnuovo 1537
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The Soviet superplane that rattled America
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NASA reopens Apollo mission control room that once landed men on Moon
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Why has India embraced the far-right?
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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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