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October 1 1989 – Thirty years after Denmark became the first country to allow same-sex couples to register in legal unions ~lgbt history Article 682 words 6 votes
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The 1963 sinking of the Thresher killed 129 men and became history’s deadliest submarine disaster ~humanities.history Article 1516 words 5 votes
Down to seven vets, Pearl Harbor survivors' group in California holds final meeting ~humanities.history Article 1461 words 15 votes
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Today marks the 18th anniversary since Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak was arrested and put in an Eritrean prison ~misc Article 1193 words 8 votes
How decades of LA smog led to California’s war with Trump over car pollution ~enviro pollution.air Article 1634 words 9 votes
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Stieg Larsson and the unsolved murder case of Olof Palme ~books nonfiction Article 1812 words 11 votes
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Wi-Fi just turned twenty, but things could have gone very differently for the now ubiquitous wireless connectivity standard ~tech Article 903 words 8 votes
What happened to the real time strategy genre ~games Article 1880 words, published Sep 12 2019 14 votes
In 1886, the US Government commissioned 7,500 watercolor paintings of every known fruit in the world ~arts painting.watercolor Article 753 words, published Jun 25 2019 15 votes
noclip.website - A website that lets you view famous levels from all kinds of games in 3D ~games Link 33 votes
A history of Visa, the credit card company. Part I ~finance Article 2880 words, published May 29 2019 8 votes
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior ~tech google privacy Article 6549 words 9 votes
Developers and industry legends on the games that defined the last 20 years ~games Article 2877 words 2 votes
Cherokee nation takes up 1835 treaty right and names first delegate to US Congress ~news usa politics Article 725 words 18 votes
Brains on Film - Documentary about an 80s public access show that praised cult movies ~movies documentaries Video 23:58, published May 21 2019 3 votes