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Before and after Don't Starve - The history of Klei Entertainment
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Twenty years of Linux on Big Iron
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Web history - Chapter 4: Search
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In the jungle: Inside the long, hidden genealogy of ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’
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What happened to the largest helicopter ever built?
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Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003)
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Mercenary black riders and the evolution of cavalry warfare in the 16th century
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Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943
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The history behind Mexico's most patriotic meal, chile en nogada
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The Nokia 3310 is twenty years old today
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How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history
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Two feet from Clearwater's past, father's funny legacy leaves a deep impression
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In your opinion, what is the most powerful speech in history?
Despite not even being his most famous speech, I think that Martin Luther King's final speech "I've Have Been to the Mountaintop" is the most amazing example of public speaking ever. The grand...
Despite not even being his most famous speech, I think that Martin Luther King's final speech "I've Have Been to the Mountaintop" is the most amazing example of public speaking ever.
The grand finale of Dr. King's great legacy. A speech given by a man who knew that his days were numbered. A speech given by a man who knew he would not live to see his dream come to fruition. Dr. King discusses the adversity that the Civil Rights movement had already faced and how these challenges were overcome through non violent methods. He challenges America and it's citizens to live up to the ideals of the country.
Somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for rights. And so just as I said, we aren't going to let dogs or water hoses turn us around. We aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on.
The speech ends with Dr. King foreshadowing the possibility of his death, an event which would occur the very next day when MLK was assassinated at his motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live – a long life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
So that's my vote. What do you view as the greatest speech in history and why?
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The Sacred Band of Carthage | Units of History
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Loving the alien - How UFO culture took over America
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The history of electoral ballot design
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The bombing and the breakthrough: How a chemical weapons disaster in World War II led to a US cover-up - and a new cancer treatment
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The golden age of computer user groups
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How industrial chicken farming transformed an ‘alternative’ meat to the most consumed meat in the US
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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How to make ice-cream cocktails like a true Wisconsinite
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The Eliza Effect
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The Food Programme: Food and the legacy of slavery
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The graphing calculator story
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Remembering Soviet pop: The USSR's vocal-instrumental ensembles
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The past, present, and future of drum & bass in Finland
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The Balearic Slingers | Units of History
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August 6th, 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
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A brief history of quarantine: Sin, space, and ships
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The world of Kaiserreich: Exploring the lore of an alternate WW1
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The story of The Beatles' desegregation rider
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Denmark’s 300-year-old homes of the future – thatched with a seaweed that has the potential to be a contemporary building material
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The ways that a cheese can go extinct, and the cheesemakers who are working to save them
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Bisexuality exists: Bisexual attraction study upends decades of flawed research
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Time killers: The strange history of wrist gaming
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The history of the automatic rice cooker
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The best Black movies of the last thirty years
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The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple
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Fleischer Studios taught Superman to quit leaping and fly
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Reconstructing ballroom history: Older generations vs. today
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The Caverns of Freitag: An obscure Apple II game that inspired the Japanese game Dragon Slayer, and helped birth the Action RPG genre
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May we all be so brave as 19th century female husbands
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Socialism’s DIY computer
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The Numidian Cavalry | Units of History
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