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Scenes From World War II Photoshopped Onto Today's Streets
A photography project reminds us that soldiers surrendered and prisoners marched on the same streets we walk along every day.
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Could This Have Been The World's First Computer?
Timelines of computer history usually take us back to the early 20th century and no further. But believe it or not, a tinkerer named Charles Babbage got close enough to creating the world’s first computer in 1837.
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Windows 95 Launch Day Celebrations
It was a big thing. If you never used 3.11 you wouldn't understand.
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Opening of the Mona Lisa after WWII.
When Northern France was occupied by the Nazis in 1940, the curator of the Louvre Museum, René Huyghe, kept the Mona Lisa under his bed in the château de Montal en Quercy (Lot region, Southwest of France).
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History of DRM & Copy Protection in Computer Games
An overview of copy protection and DRM schemes used in computer gaming, covering the most notable and interesting methods from the late 70's on up through today!
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This Is What Shopping Malls Looked Like in 1989
Photographer Michael Galinsky visited shopping malls in 1989 to examine how everything in America was beginning to look exactly the same.
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Most amazing oil painting I've seen by Leonid Afremov.
Easily one of the greatest and least appreciated artists of all time. Unfortunately, there are those who decry this visionary and then start throwing around artist names such as Matisse or Renoir thinking they can critique Afremov's work on comparison alone.
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They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside
For more than 200 years, this book concealed the arcane rituals of an ancient order. But cracking the code only deepened the mystery.
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Ikea Admits Forced Labor Had Been Used in 1980s
Ikea has long been famous for its inexpensive, some-assembly-required furniture. On Friday the company admitted that political prisoners in the former East Germany provided some of the labor that helped it keep its prices so low.
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Where 16 Of The Strangest Company Names Came From
Google. Yahoo. Yandex. Some of today's biggest companies are named the strangest things. Sometimes, it's not the company's fault. There's a running joke that vowels are too expensive in Silicon Valley and founders can't afford normal-sounding domain names.
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Einstein’s Brain: New Insights into the Roots of Genius
Ever since his death in 1955, scientists have asked what features of Einstein’s brain contributed to his extraordinary insights into physical laws.
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Human Intelligence Declining, Controversial New Study Suggests
Humans may be gradually losing intelligence, according to a new study. The study, published today (Nov. 12) in the journal Trends in Genetics, argues that humans lost the evolutionary pressure to be smart once we started living in dense agricultural settlements several thousand years ago.
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Photo: 1912's Perfect Woman Was From Brooklyn, Weighed 171 Lbs, Had Pear-Shaped Body
From the NY Times (View larger version) In 1912 Miss Elsie Scheel of Brooklyn was deemed the “most nearly perfect specimen of womanhood” out of 400 other coeds at Cornell that year. The 24-year-old Scheel had come to Cornell from Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights—she enjoyed horticulture..
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The History of Boredom
This Sunday, 500 people will flock to a conference hall in East London to be bored. Over the course of seven hours, they will hear talks on, among other things, pylons, self-service checkouts, double-yellow lines – as in the ones on the road – shop fronts and gardening.
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How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service
Owner spent $10,000 to preserve "Internet generation's cultural legacy."
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The world won't end next month, Maya experts insist
Relax doomsayers, the Maya people did not really mark their calendar for the end of the world on December 21, 2012.
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Removing Nazi graffiti, the right way!
Nerdffiti is a plague of the urban sprawl.
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Remembering Strummer 10 years later
In the early hours of the 23rd of December 2002 , I took a call telling me that Joe Strummer had died. After the conversation, I lay in bed for a while not quite believing what I'd heard.
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A Perfect Terrorist: David Coleman Headley's Web of Betrayal
How did David Coleman Headley veer from a life of privilege to drugs, crime and, finally, terrorism? His dedication to one thing beyond all else: Himself.
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32,000 year old cave paintings
These are believed to be the oldest paintings ever discovered. Found in 1994, in a cave in France.
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