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The insane engineering of the X-15 (experimental hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft)
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Annie's Mac and Cheese is based in the Bay Area, but Annie is not. Here's her story.
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The incredible video game packaging designs of Hock Wah Yeo
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Why do interviewers ask linked list questions?
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Cassette history/trivia: A series of fortunate events
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What if the war of 1812 had a victor?
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The former Netflix DVD library is a lost treasure we’ll never see again
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Tracing paper - A brief history of the secret plan to track every printed page
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Part of Wright brothers’ first airplane on NASA’s Mars chopper
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‘Lost universe’ comics find devoted following amongst collectors
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I looked at 100 ads for menstrual products spanning 100 years — shame and secrecy prevailed
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Germany's plans to win WW1
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The Digital Antiquarian: System Shock
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The final days and dissolution of Austria-Hungary
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The web's first online bookmark manager
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Friedman Adventures Podcast Special - May 19th 1986 rescue at sea
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José Epita Mbomo: The Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis
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24-year-old prototype of Samurai Shodown 64 for Hyper Neo Geo 64 discovered outside in a field in California, where it was left for twenty years
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‘The Secret Apartment’ is the story of a Vietnam vet who claims to have lived in Veterans Stadium for years
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History of 4chan
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Aztec chocolate (xocolatl) - Blood & Spice
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How George Harrison staged one of the most influential concerts in music history
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What history tells us about bond-rate scares like this
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Kapaemahu
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The legendary medieval cockentrice
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Lessons from a year of Covid
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The overwhelmingly White image of beer culture erases a much longer, far-reaching narrative of Black brewing
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Black intimacy at the card table
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The rise and fall of white bread
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An Irish soldier describes World War One (1988)
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A new version of the first known on-screen kiss between two African-American actors has been discovered in the collections of the National Library of Norway
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The battery invented 120 years before its time
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Yaupon: The rebirth of America's forgotten tea
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The twenty-five greatest art heists of all time
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Animated history: 1943 - 1945 Invasion of Italy (Video collage)
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Tracing the roots of pop culture transphobia
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The first video game
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A map of the age of all the buildings in the Netherlands
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Why sitcoms stopped using laugh tracks - Short history of the laff box
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Ancient Egyptian brewery is the oldest ever found
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Remembering "All Your Base" twenty years later
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The long history of warrior turtles, from ancient myth to warships to teenage mutants
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What will the world look like in 250 million years? | Map Men
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Matthew Syed looks at how the behaviour of hostages at a 1973 bank robbery gave rise to a concept known as Stockholm syndrome
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What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do?
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The real novelty of the ARPANET
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Sámi National Day – National day that falls on February 6th. This date was when the first Sámi congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway
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The Bowed Strings Iconography Project catalogues as many images of bowed string instruments as possible throughout all periods of history through to the present day
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Early illustrations of the nervous system by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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