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12 votes
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This should keep you busy for a while. With 9,036 pieces, Lego’s Roman Colosseum set is its largest ever.
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Do you read 'old news'/article archives?
Asked because I like the idea of reading about the past and feel unsatisfied by r/history and r/askhistorians mainly because reddit's search isn't that great and those subs have a much wider scope...
Asked because I like the idea of reading about the past and feel unsatisfied by r/history and r/askhistorians mainly because reddit's search isn't that great and those subs have a much wider scope than most news archives.
I'm gonna do this on a Q&A format. Note that "old news" doesn't need to be news articles, it can be blogs for example.
If you read old news/articles, where do you get them from/find them?
What kind of "old news" do you read?
What historical period do you tend to read about?
If you're reading an article about a historical event you remember, how does your memory tend to compare to those articles?
How often do you do it?
What do you think about subreddits like r/twentyyearsago, since they're basically trawling through those news archives?
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Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant on the 2003 Los Angeles Lakers
5 votes -
Why military history?
5 votes -
Web history - Chapter 5: Publishing
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Hakeem Olajuwon and the Rockets beefed so hard he almost left Houston before they ever got a ring
6 votes -
The history and evolution of the term "roguelike"
9 votes -
Silphium: The lost aphrodisiac of ancient Rome
5 votes -
Manufacturing a better foot | Running shoes
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The remarkable life of Roxie Laybourne, the world’s first forensic ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution
6 votes -
How Sierra was captured, then killed, by a massive accounting fraud
21 votes -
The story behind markdown
14 votes -
How did Soviet planners design the Union's cities?
9 votes -
Mario Kart 64: The quest for world record perfection
22 votes -
Living legacy
4 votes -
DJ Drama, mixtapes, and the raid that changed rap
7 votes -
The Digital Antiquarian: Master of Magic
4 votes -
Movie night at the White House: A century of screenings, decoded
7 votes -
The forgotten story of ... the France football captain who murdered for Adolf Hitler
7 votes -
Artistic enigma decoded by cosmic Czech start-up
5 votes -
Buildings and residents testament to the rich seams of history and identity of Kiruna in Sweden are ousted in favour of the profit-laden iron ore seams lurking beneath
2 votes -
Berlin mystery attack targets seventy museum artifacts
5 votes -
Filippo Buonanni's Harmonic Cabinet (1722)
3 votes -
Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
13 votes -
Engelbart's Violin
5 votes -
Ancient Roman Placenta – Honey Cheesecake
6 votes -
An archaeology of marijuana
10 votes -
Cloud gaming’s history of false starts and promising reboots
5 votes -
The (mostly) true story of Vanilla Ice, hip-hop, and the American Dream
5 votes -
Scappi's Renaissance herb torte
7 votes -
2.1 million of the oldest internet posts are now online for anyone to read
14 votes -
The undying appeal of Nikola Tesla’s “death ray”
7 votes -
Understanding measurement issues is key to understanding ‘economic growth’
5 votes -
Coffin pies - Death and chocolate
5 votes -
Before the Easy-Bake Oven, toy stoves were beautiful and deadly
11 votes -
Colonial life and the burning of wood
6 votes -
Spartan black broth | Melas Zomos
4 votes -
Reviving Ozark cuisine through seeds
6 votes -
Big boxes of PC gaming
7 votes -
YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K. Historians want them to stop
9 votes -
How did the Mongols conquer strongholds and cities?
4 votes -
The Digital Antiquarian: Transport Tycoon
4 votes -
The rise and fall of Britain's bedroom coders | Design Icons
9 votes -
Comics: Old-school distance-learning tools
4 votes -
Great medieval bake off
7 votes -
The Sacred Band of Thebes | Units of History
4 votes -
A battle of lies: Fake news in the Grear War
6 votes -
18th century mac and cheese | Stump Sohla
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Kulning – The often high-pitched herding calls of the Nordic fäbod culture; a group of labor songs developed out of needs rather than musical expression
9 votes