The history of mainstream handwashing only began near the end of the 19th century
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As Coca-Cola’s popularity spread in the United States in the 1920s, rabbis around the country asked, is Coke kosher?
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Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
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A profound ignorance of nature - Commentary on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s most recent expression of historical illiteracy
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1980-1989: Rockism faces the world
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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
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The true story behind Michael Jordan's brief-but-promising baseball career
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Modern Venezuela shows the eerie conclusion of illiberal politics
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Investigating the etymology of "Triscuit"
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The history of the bulletproof vest
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How epidemics of the past changed the way Americans lived
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The National Library of Scotland has digitized the first eight editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, issued between 1768 and 1860
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The history of a shipwreck that brought Chinese immigrants to the Monterey, California area
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Growing up in Quarantineland: Childhood nightmares in the age of germs prepared me for coronavirus
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The history of Turkey until Atatürk
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Civil rights icon Joseph Lowery has died at 98
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The story of the hijacking of Eastern Airlines Flight 1320 in 1970: the first hijacked US flight with a fatality, which led to many of the modern airline security measures
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The history of the Seattle Mariners
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The history of the United States Air Force's hunt for a stealth special operations transport
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Why don’t we use chemical weapons anymore?
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This isn't the first time a crisis has come during election year. So how have we dealt with things like this before?
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How astronaut Nick Hague survived an aborted Soyuz flight
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Why Hitler lost the war: German strategic mistakes in WWII
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The great toilet paper scare of 1973
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The Taisho era and how the Japanese army put an end to it
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How the 1957 flu pandemic was stopped early in its path
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Caesar's Funeral (44 B.C.E.)
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The thalidomide tragedy: Lessons for drug safety and regulation
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The quest to beat Matt Turk's World Records in Punch-Out!! (NES)
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How Americans discussed democracy in the 1930's
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Birgit Maixner: ‘Place names are like fossils in the landscape. They tell us stories about the past – if we know how to interpret them’
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The US's foreign entanglements
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Five people who were amazingly productive in quarantine
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RSS: The original federated social network protocol
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Chloroquine, past and present
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Capitalism’s favorite drug: The dark history of how coffee took over the world
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ASCII art and permadeath: the history of roguelike games
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The flu killed 40M in 1918. Every flu season since is descended from it
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Why didn't anyone copy the Roman Army? - The Imitation Legions
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Book Review: Hoover
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The single most important lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic: tell the truth
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A short history of banned games in Germany
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An interview with Masayuki Uemura, the engineer who designed the Famicom and helped take Nintendo into video games
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Greenland glacier collapse – a new study combining historical photos with evidence from ocean sediments suggests climate change was already at work in the 1930s
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The Highland clearances: Explained
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Vintage ads: Selling health and hygiene during the 1918 pandemic
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Floodlines - An eight-part narrative podcast thoroughly reassessing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, 15 years later
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The fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries
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The history of a Cold War mastermind: Gus Weiss, a shrewd intelligence insider, pulled off an audacious tech hack against the Soviets in the last century. Or did he?
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The history of Spain’s ‘Insured for Fire’ building signs
7 votes