How big oil of the past helped launch the solar industry of today
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October 1 1989 – Thirty years after Denmark became the first country to allow same-sex couples to register in legal unions
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Microscopically reweaving a 1907 painting
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Down to seven vets, Pearl Harbor survivors' group in California holds final meeting
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Sid Meier discusses Civilization's original design as a real-time strategy game and the transition to turn-based | War Stories
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Today marks the 18th anniversary since Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak was arrested and put in an Eritrean prison
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The secret gay history of Islam. In Muslim cultures, homosexuality was once considered the most normal thing in the world – so what changed?
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Stieg Larsson and the unsolved murder case of Olof Palme
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The tangled history of spaghetti bolognese
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How Chagall’s daughter smuggled his work out of Nazi-occupied Europe
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Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding
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Wi-Fi just turned twenty, but things could have gone very differently for the now ubiquitous wireless connectivity standard
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The powerful women whose patronage shaped art history
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What happened to the real time strategy genre
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In 1886, the US Government commissioned 7,500 watercolor paintings of every known fruit in the world
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The launch of the Sega Dreamcast
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The time when Zambia tried to go to Mars
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noclip.website - A website that lets you view famous levels from all kinds of games in 3D
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Discovery tour - Ancient Greece
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Lego House is right next to Denmark's Legoland, but way cooler
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Dreamcast twentieth anniversary interview extravaganza
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Where dollar bills come from
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A history of Visa, the credit card company. Part I
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Developers and industry legends on the games that defined the last 20 years
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Why is there cardboard in Dracula?
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Cherokee nation takes up 1835 treaty right and names first delegate to US Congress
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Brains on Film - Documentary about an 80s public access show that praised cult movies
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John W. Campbell Award is renamed after winner criticizes him
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Denmark honours Bernhard Arp Sindberg who rescued thousands of Chinese during the Japanese imperial army's orgy of violence in Nanjing in 1937
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Navajo code talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories
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The scandalous painting that helped create modern art | Édouard Manet's Olympia
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Collector acquires rare Konami Space School cartridge and QTa adapter for Famicom, dumps them for emulation
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After Katrina, a priceless musical archive was thought lost. It showed up in Torrance
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Blink-182’s Peter Pan complex
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Silvio Gesell, who wanted to create money that expired, is making a comeback
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A group of Chinese international students say they take little notice of politics or historical events, with one admitting to not having heard of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
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Kernel Panic - The world's first cyber crime: The Morris Worm
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The survival of Iggy Pop - An inventor of punk rock on his long career, the future, and swimming in Miami
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A short cultural history of tie-dye
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I'm not a robot
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Crab rangoon: How a fusion of at least four cuisines created a beloved and misunderstood dish
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Futurology: how a group of visionaries looked beyond the possible a century ago and predicted today’s world
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"Whipt Cream, Like Snow" (Cream Puffs) | 18th Century Cooking
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The secret of Monkey Island
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Did Venus Williams ever get her due? How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis
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The world's oldest webcam is shutting down after a quarter of a century
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Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot
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How the Daguerreotype started a Victorian black market for pornography in London
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Where Travis Scott - Sicko Mode's weirdest moments came from: Tracing the roots of Jamaican dub music | Vox Earworm
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Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge
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