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An interesting photo collection of retro personal computer ads from the 1980s
This photo collection of vintage ads gives a glimpse into how the computer industry developed in the early 1980s.
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When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Opened a Psychic Bookstore
A considerable mess greeted the station sergeant who peered into London's The Psychic Bookshop in the early morning hours of February 6, 1928. Books and papers
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Two Hundred Years Ago, the Rosetta Stone Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Egypt
French scholar Jean-François Champollion announced his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs on September 27, 1822
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iPad Pro is revolutionizing how archaeologists preserve the history of Pompeii
Archaeologists share how they use iPad Pro and Apple Pencil to capture data at the excavation site at Pompeii.
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Meanwhile, in 1966
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The tiny murder scenes of forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee
Lee was a diorama-maker, criminal investigation educator and the first female police captain in the US.
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Humans may have started tending animals almost 13,000 years ago
Remnants from an ancient fire pit in Syria suggest that hunter-gatherers were burning dung as fuel by the end of the Old Stone Age.
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Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor is laid to rest, at last
A 21-year-old sailor was laid to rest Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II .
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Silencing the lambs. How propaganda works.
In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a 'profound imperialism' and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.
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The Early Part of Internet History That People Don’t Talk About
The people who built the modem world in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond.
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When Every Ketchup But One Went Extinct
The main casualty of the catsup war was flavor.
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The Spanish Flu | DW Documentary
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Everything You Know About History Is Wrong: Part I
Everything You Know About History Is Wrong is a new series exploring widely believed historical myths. New installments will be published every few weeks. If you enjoy this sort of thing, let us know!
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, dead at 91
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials as saying on Tuesday.
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What’s the real story behind James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s violent murder?
Recent revelations have only fed speculation that some form of plot lay behind the gangster’s brutal demise in prison
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‘Look closely and there’s a tear in Armstrong’s eye’: the Apollo space missions as you’ve never seen them before
Nasa’s original moon mission photographs, kept locked in a freezer in Houston, are some of the most vital artefacts of human endeavour. Now, they have been remastered for a new century. Introduction by Tim Peake. Photographs restored by Andy Saunders.
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Over 90% of Medieval Manuscripts Have Been Lost, Study Says
Scientists borrowed the ecological "unseen species" model to estimate how many works of medieval European literature have gone extinct.
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Ancient tooth DNA reveals how ‘cold sore’ herpes virus has evolved
Teeth from long-dead people and animals are divulging the history of modern-day pathogens.
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Do not try this at home: Medieval medicine under the spotlight in major new project
How did our medieval ancestors use dove faeces, fox lungs, salted owl or eel grease in medical treatments? A Wellcome funded project at Cambridge University Library is about to find out.
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Old manuscripts which reveal bizarre medieval medical cures being shared by Cambridge University
Treatments for battle wounds are among the remedies described - but Cambridge researchers say many target a familiar set of ailments such as headache, toothache, diarrhoea, coughs and aching limbs.
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