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What happened to the Antarctic Snow Cruiser?
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How factories were made safe
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An oral history of Big Shiny Tunes: the CD that defined a Canadian era
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Three strange river crossings
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The history of tie-dye
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The Roe baby
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Someone dead ruined my life ... again. (Tiffany follow-up)
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The enduring mystery of Jack the Ripper
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A story about living in nature and the value of culture captures the spirit of Finland – Lizzie Enfield explores the remarkable legacy of 'Seitsemän veljestä'
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The history of the Atlanta Falcons
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The great measles immunity heist
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Discovery Channel's Beyond 2000: Wearable Computers (1992)
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Replica 18th century ship Götheborg II plans to re-sail the trading route from Sweden to China
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Documenting the last pay phones in America
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Why lying about storage products is bad: An IBM DeskStar story
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Ancient Egyptian tiger nut cake
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The Roman invasion of Nubia (24 BC) | Forgotten Wars
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The history of the jet: Digital culture built on the seamless speed of the jet age
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The Marajoara Culture: How to thrive in the Amazon
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A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
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French games used to be weird
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The inside story of how the lowly PDF played the longest game in tech
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Life before Unicode
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What if the Morgenthau plan was implemented in Germany after the end of WW2?
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1Password 8: The story so far
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1800s astronomical drawings vs. NASA images
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The history of humiliation points to the future of human dignity
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Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears
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Swedish ice hockey star Peter Karlsson was stabbed to death in the street in 1995. His killer said he was protecting himself via the so-called 'gay panic' defence
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Remember when multiplayer gaming needed envelopes and stamps? The history of play by mail games
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Doc Gooden's career was over. Then he did the impossible
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How life improved since 1990
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Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage (1989)
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💖 The tale of Tiffany 💖
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The olympic pictograms are miniature design masterpieces
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The Malê Rebellion in Bahia: Brazil’s African Muslim uprising
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Modern analysis of a 1,000-year-old grave in Finland challenges long-held beliefs about gender roles in ancient societies
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When the Western world ran on guano
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Envy
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History of the Segway - Dean Kamen's literary agent revisits the story twenty years later to reflect on his contribution to the invention's hype and failure
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Why Hitler was obsessed with Iceland
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Today is the World Wide Web's 30th birthday - On 6 Aug 1991, Tim Berners-Lee published the first page, and changed the world
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The great myth of the medieval tritone ban
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Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate
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The Complete Tokyo 1964 Olympics Film | Olympic History
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The future of airliners? The plane that may change air travel forever (Boeing X-48)
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How did you find niche stuff before the Internet?
Over in the topic on the perceptions of teenage boys, it was asked, “How did you find niche stuff before the internet?” I thought this was an interesting question and wanted to open it up to hear...
Over in the topic on the perceptions of teenage boys, it was asked, “How did you find niche stuff before the internet?” I thought this was an interesting question and wanted to open it up to hear others’ memories about this.
Edit: Somewhat related, I saw this post today: The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones
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How Foucault was shielded from scandal by French reverence for intellectuals
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High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful
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