Why do notes have names? (A short history of solfeggio)
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The Speculatores: Spies of the Roman Army | Units of History
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Why measuring the impact of Lend-Lease is so difficult
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How 1995's Macintosh NY Music Fest 'livestreamed' twenty-five years ahead of its time
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BBFC discussion of Taxi Zum Klo
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Only two and a half billion tyrannosaurus rex inhabited the planet in total, researchers say
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Warez Wars (1997)
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The last time a vaccine saved America
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The unparalleled genius of John von Neumann
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Feeding a Roman Legion | Posca & Laridum
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How not to deal with murder in space
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Pacific Series part 1/5: Why attacking Pearl Harbor was the least bad option Japan had
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Meet some of the last papyrus makers in Egypt keeping a 5,000-year-old craft alive | Still Standing
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Japanese decorative sushi story | Saiku style
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Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
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The history of 'Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?' | DefunctTV
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The Real Book
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Resurrecting forbidden music | James Conlon
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What we can learn from a 2000 year old puzzle
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Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after thirty years
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RIP SpaceJam.com, 1996-2021
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Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties
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The USAAF intercepts and shoots down Admiral Yamamoto, 1943 - Animated
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The eternal mainframe
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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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