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What medieval Europe did with its teenagers
Today, there's often a perception that Asian children are given a hard time by their parents. But a few hundred years ago northern Europe took a particularly harsh line, sending children away to live and work in someone else's home. Not surprisingly, the children didn't always like it.
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Before There Was the Like Button, There Was ... the 'Radiovota'
In the 1930s, an engineer tried to bring two-way communication to mass media.
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The footballer who disappeared
One of the biggest shocks in World Cup history happened in 1950, when the US beat England, thanks to a goal scored by Haitian Joe Gaetjens. After Gaetjens returned to Haiti a hero, he later disappeared and was killed, possibly by the president himself.
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How WWI Gave Birth to the Age of Flight
Between 1903 and 1918, aviation changed from a pastime of hair-brained inventors to a technology that promised to shrink the world. The change was part inevitability and part good timing: the airplane was born and reached maturity in the years before the First World War, the first shots of which were fired 200 years ago this year. The conflict served to drive money and minds to bettering the nascent technology with the result being airplanes dominating the war-time skies.
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The Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Their Shadows And Reveal Themselves
Burglars who broke into an F.B.I. field office in 1971 and stole files that revealed the extent of the bureau’s surveillance of political groups are only now revealing their identities.
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Masturbation was once considered more offensive than child abuse
I've written many articles based on Victorian/Edwardian advice books. There was advice for everything, from how to improve your breast size to keeping your man faithful, all written with earnest authority by "experts" of the day. In these old books, I noticed that one subject appeared over and over, usually shrouded with dire euphemisms: The Solitary Vice. Self Abuse. The Vicious Habit.
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6 Vintage Gadgets Ads That Will Make You Smile
As time goes by, our way of living changes. That’s more than obvious when it comes to technology. Watching vintage gadget adverts takes you back in time and allows you to realize how far technology has come and lets you guess how far can it go.
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The Charles Bukowski Tapes: 52 Short Interviews with the Underground Poet
Watch 'The Charles Bukowski Tapes,' a collection of 52 short interviews conducted by French filmmaker Barbet Schroeder, who directed the Bukowski-penned Barfly, with Mickey Rourke as Bukowski stand-in Henry Chinaski.
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Home where Oswald slept night before Kennedy assassination now museum
The suburban Dallas home where Lee Harvey Oswald spent the night before he assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy opened as a museum on Wednesday ahead of the 50th anniversary of
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New homeowner opens shelter sealed since 1961
With effort, Craig Denham heaves open the heavy metal door. He heads down the steep, thick concrete steps that are set in solid limestone. He takes a sharp left into the darkness, then another, before revealing an astounding time capsule preserved from the height of the Atomic Age.
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San Francisco Pre Earthquake-Fire: "A Trip Down Market Street" 14 April 1906
"Produced as part of the popular Hale's Tours of the World film series, the film begins at the location of the Miles Brothers film studio, 1139 Market Street, between 8th and 9th Streets; it was filmed 14 April 1906, four days before the devastating earthquake and fire of 18 April 1906, which virtually destroyed the entire downtown area..."
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The girl whose rape changed a country
She was attacked at a rural police station, and her landmark case awakened India decades ago. But did she manage to love, have children, find happiness? New headlines about rape in my homeland set me on a journey to find her.
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Police Mugshots in the 1920's
These dapper criminals make the cast of Boardwalk Empire look like a bunch of inauthentic chumps. Enjoy these awesome (and quite frankly, a little creepy) mugshots.
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April 1912 headline: "Titanic Sinking; No Lives Lost"
Most people found out the Titanic had struck an iceberg from newspapers like this one from Canada. Most newspaper headlines were raving that the Titanic had hit an iceberg and that everyone survived and the ship was being towed to New York by the Carpathia.
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Did Hollywood studios help the Nazis?
The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler a controversial new book claims movie studios gave into the wishes of Hitler’s Germany. How true are its claims? Tom Brook investigates.
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1938 Police Shootout, Los Angeles
Feb. 17, 1938: Tear gas drifts from a home in the 1700 block of East 22nd Street as Los Angeles police trade gunfire with barricaded suspect George Farley. The bodies of a deputy city marshal and his helper — shot and killed by Farley as they tried to serve an eviction notice on him — lie in front of the barricaded home. Killed were Deputy Marshal T. Dwight Crittenden and Leon W. Romer, both 60.
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Hitler's Female Henchmen
Wendy Lower’s Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields returns the Holocaust to something of its original horror. It is a study of German and Austrian women on the eastern front, and the simple revelation behind their story is that women were no less capable of brutality than men.
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15 Vintage Black and White Photographs of Airships
Since its inception in the 1850s, we have always been fascinated with lighter-than-air flight or balloons with steering and propulsion capabilities. Like many early flight and other aeronautical experiments, however, the trial-and-error period was hazardous and lasted awhile.
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Magisterial 'Wilson' explains why the 28th president is ignored
When historians are asked to name our greatest president, Woodrow Wilson is consistently ranked near the top. He was president during the Progressive Era and championed many of its reforms, including the eight-hour workday, a federal income tax and government regulation of big business.
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Stalin's Blue Pencil
Joseph Djugashvili (later Stalin) was a student in a theological seminary when he came across the writings of Vladimir Lenin and decided to become a Bolshevik revolutionary. Thereafter, in addition to blowing things up, robbing banks, and organizing strikes, he became an editor, working at two papers in Baku and then as editor of the first Bolshevik daily, Pravda. Lenin admired Djugashvili's editing; Djugashvili admired Lenin, and rejected 47 articles he submitted to Pravda.
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How This 75 Year-Old Piece of Paper Started Modern Computing
Seventy-five years ago, this piece of paper started the modern computing trend and changed offices forever.
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This Bear Was an Official Member of Poland's WWII Army
The soldiers did acquire a bear cub during their journey. They named him Wojtek, pronounced “Voytek”, meaning “he who enjoys war” or “smiling warrior.” The bear quickly became something of a mascot for the soldiers, and then much more.
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A Brief History of the ATM
Today, we think nothing of walking out of our houses on a Friday night without a penny in our pocket. The reason is that there is a network of ATMs around the globe: In the UK and U.S. alone, there are around 150 ATMs per 100,000 people—plenty to go around. According to analysts RBR, 2.25 million machines dispensed cash automatically at the end of 2010, and that’s expected to grow beyond 3 million by 2016.
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Documents show US spied on Martin Luther King
Newly declassified documents show NSA spied on the civil rights icon, boxer Muhammad Ali and other Vietnam war critics.
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How Alcohol Conquered Russia
A history of the country’s struggle with alcoholism, and why the government has done so little about it.
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The Buckeberge, Thanksgiving Day, 1937
That's a lot of Nazis.
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Medical Terms That Still Bear the Mark of the Third Reich
Dr. Hans Reiter achieved the one thing most likely to keep a physician’s name in textbooks forever: He got an illness named after him. While working as a medic in the German army in World War I, he once treated a case of simultaneous inflammation in the joints, eyes, and urethra. This became known as Reiter’s syndrome.
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US plane in 1961 nuclear 'near miss'
A four-megaton nuclear bomb was one switch away from exploding over the US in 1961, a newly declassified US document confirms.
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Dawn of a revolution
When Bill Gates was at Harvard, he wrote software code that helped to launch the personal computer era
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The Postal Service’s 30-Year Relationship with Email
A look at the United States Postal Service’s history of electronic communication and digital services.
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