“Depression era” water pie
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Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Edison film captured it in action
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To understand life at the top of the world, you only need to meet the Norwegians who live along the E69, the world's northernmost highway
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For the relocated Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost settlement, located above the Arctic Circle, planners prioritised infrastructure links over microclimate
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In 1903, a Norwegian farmer discovered an ornate piece of wood sticking out of the mud – one year later, an almost totally intact Viking ship burial had been uncovered
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A 1903 proposal to preserve the dead in glass cubes
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The failure of the land value tax in the UK
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The United States of pizza, mapsplained
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America’s first cross-country auto race
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Why a tire company gives out food’s most famous award
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Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Searching for Maura
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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The giant chainmail box that stops a house dissolving
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Part of Wright brothers’ first airplane on NASA’s Mars chopper
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Microscopically reweaving a 1907 painting
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