When phones were fun: Samsung's "Matrix Phone" (2003)
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What if the internet never existed?
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Marie Curie's PhD thesis
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Last person to receive an American Civil War pension dies
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Retrotech: The Novell NetWare Experience
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Why helicopter airlines failed
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The story of how NASA went from space shuttles to SpaceX and commercial rockets
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Bach's Brandenberg Concerto No. 3 played on period instruments
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John Titor
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Did the Italians actually teach the French the art of the vinaigrette?
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission
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Australia's High Court decides 'Palace letters' written during the Whitlam dismissal can be accessed by historian Jenny Hocking
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Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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GE switches off light bulb business after almost 130 years
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Subutai: Genghis Khan’s demon dog of war
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The cool history of ice cream (in America) | The Ice Cream Show Episode 9
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Get in shape girl: A century of working out from home
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IBM's dance notation typewriter
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The tempest prognosticator
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How To Drink's top five tiki drinks
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The insane engineering of the A-10 Warthog
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The birth of NASAs space program | The Saturn V Story
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Perfect Dark: The oral history of an N64 classic
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Most watched American TV series 1951 – 2019
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Ahmaud Arbery was lynched: He was killed in the street by White men. That’s how lynchings work
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How vodka ruined Russia
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When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
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War, colonialism, and industrialism | The worldbuilding of Avatar
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The lessons of the Great Depression
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Twitter thread about Doug Geisler, an astronomy grad student who was at Manastash Ridge Observatory forty years ago when Mount St. Helens exploded 140 miles away
@emsque: Exactly #40YearsAgo Doug Geisler was asleep atop Manastash Ridge Observatory. An astronomy grad student, he'd just logged his first excellent night at the telescope for his PhD thesis. He was the only person on the summit, ~90 miles from #MountStHelens... #MSH40
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Non-glamorous gains: The Pennsylvania land tax experiment
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How Prince of Persia defeated Apple II's memory limitations | War Stories
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Perfect Dark turns twenty - The definitive story behind the N64 hit that outclassed James Bond
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World War Two animated: Western Front 1940
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ABBA's 'Waterloo' has been named the greatest Eurovision song of all time by BBC viewers
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An ode to the unexpected whimsy (and strength) of your mail delivery
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Algonquin Round Table: How the group of writers became a symbol of the roaring twenties
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Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past
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The history of Ninja Gaiden world records
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At the limits of thought: Science today stands at a crossroads--will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created?
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Apollo 11: From lunar orbit to landing
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Too black, too queer, too holy: why Little Richard never truly got his dues -- How did a turbaned drag queen from the sexual underground of America’s Deep South ignite rock’n’roll?
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The great geomagnetic storm of May 1921
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1998: Apple's iMac is full of flash, dash, but has a few big holes
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Where Dr. Anothony Fauci came from — and the crisis that shaped his career
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The Swiss at war: Bellicose Swiss and an ambitious Duke - The Burgundian Wars Pt. 1
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The history of Creative Assembly
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Fried crème brûlée cooked three times | 18th Century Cooking
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'Lovers of Modena' skeletal find were both men; researchers quick to reassess their relationship
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