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Tech Time Warp of the Week: America Online, 1995
By the early 2000s, the world wide web had sounded the death knell for the world's "online services" -- corporate-controlled creations like America Online and CompuServe that brought computer users online well before the web was created. But there was a brief time when these services were king -- and a company like AOL was powerful enough to purchase a giant like Time Warner for $164 billion.
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Already in a museum
One of the toughest phones to ever be built.
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Queen Elizabeth II Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Coronation
Queen Elizabeth II and cities around the U.K. on Sunday celebrated the 60th anniversary of the British monarch's coronation. The Queen herself reportedly spent the day at her favorite royal residence Windsor Castle where she attended a private church event to celebrate the anniversary.
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Today I Learned: The Third Reich Kept Its Soldiers Alert With Crystal Meth
In 1972, Heinrich Böll won the Nobel Prize for literature. But before he became a writer of novels, short stories, and essays, Böll was a writer of letters. During his early 20s, which also happened to be during World War II, he was conscripted into the German military.
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17 winning words from past National Spelling Bees
On Thursday, Arvind Mahankali from New York spelled "knaidel" (a small mass of leavened dough) to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Here are 17 of the most interesting words from the Bee's 88-year history.
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How Samsung Got Big
The cellphones were stacked up high in the Gumi factory yard and more were coming out every minute. Phones, TVs, fax machines, and other gear shattered as it hit the concrete and Samsung CEO Kun-hee Lee and his board cracked the screens and cases with heavy hammers.
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Welcome to Mogadishu
Despite the threats from Islamist militants, the Somali capital is bursting back to life.
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Startling Reports Of Nazi 'Meth' Use
In an attempt to fuel its youthful but increasingly exhausted fighting force during World War II, the Nazis reportedly turned to addictive and potentially dangerous substances, including a form of what is known today as the illegal drug methamphetamine, currently a rising problem in Europe.
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Why Are Roses the Most Famous Flower?
President Obama took the unusual step of holding a formal event in the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday to announce three nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Roses are by far the most culturally significant flower in the West.
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The Unlikely Evolution Of The @ Symbol
What makes this such an incredible feat is that before until about 20 years ago, few people had ever used an @ symbol at all, and if they did, they used it in a very different way than they do now.
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7 Bizarre Ways Kids Entertained Themselves Before Video Games
In the old days, all a kid needed to have a good time was imagination, some throwing knives, and a couple of belts tied round his neck.
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Lost Egyptian City Revealed After 1,200 Years Under Sea
It is a city shrouded in myth, swallowed by the Mediterranean Sea and buried in sand and mud for more than 1,200 years. But now archeologists are unearthing the mysteries of Heracleion, uncovering amazingly well-preserved artifacts that tell the story of a vibrant classical-era port.
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15 Details from the In Cold Blood Killers’ Case Files
The Kansas Historical Society recently released Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickok’s inmate case files, which shed light on their lives behind bars.
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Is Spaghetti and Meatballs Italian?
The classic dish can be found in red-and-white tablecloth spots across the United States, but there's a fascinating history behind where it got its start.
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Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying
All of the evidence found in this timeline can also be found in the Summary of Evidence we submitted to the court in Jewel v. NSA. It is intended to recall all the credible accounts and information of the NSA's domestic spying program found in the media, congressional testimony, books, and court actions.
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Researchers claim that life arrived on Earth via asteroids and comets, but not in the way you think
A forthcoming study from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory claims that supercomputers simulations of asteroid impacts predict the formation of some of the most crucial organic compounds for life.
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New North America Viking Voyage Discovered
The voyage may have led to the first contact between Europeans and indigenous people of the New World.
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Get Out of the Way: A History of How Ambulance Lights Save Lives
For as ear-piercing as ambulance sirens are, you’d think they’d be better alert systems. Truth is: they’re shockingly ineffective. Drivers register the sound only at close proximity and at very low speeds. Guessing from which direction the ambulance will appear is always tricky, too—especially when the new Daft Punk is turned up really loud.
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How Lobster Got Fancy: The Surprising History of a Delicacy
The surprising history—from food for the poor and prisoners to a soldier's staple to everybody's idea of a delicacy—of "the cockroach of the ocean."
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Afghanistan of the 50s-60s
aving seen the title of the post, many probably thought that it would be about a wild, backward, medieval country with even worse living conditions than now. But you are wrong. Some time ago, it was an absolutely different country. Afghan women made a career in medicine, went to the movies and studied at the universities of Kabul.
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