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Dogs: Medieval Man's Best Friend - Medieval manuscripts blog
Are you interested in dogs? Are you interested in medieval manuscripts? Are you interested in dogs in medieval manuscripts? Who's not?! And you can find out more by reading Kathleen Walker-Meikle's new book, Medieval Dogs, published by the British Library. Here the author kindly picks out for us some of...
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U.S. and Cuba talk about resuming direct mail service
The United States and Cuba concluded on Monday their second round of talks aimed at re-establishing direct mail service between the two countries after a 50-year ban, but left for later the most sensitive issue - Cuban planes landing on U.S. soil.
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The Science of Jurassic Park
With Jurassic World set to hit theaters in the summer of 2015, we take a look at what the franchise got wrong, right, and vaguely correct.
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Cars found in lake may be from cold cases
The discovery of as many as six bodies in two cars in a lake could explain disappearances from 1960s and 1970.
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Mystery in the Sky: A Legendary Photo (Slowly) Gives Up Its Secrets
Construction workers eat their lunches atop a steel beam 800 feet above ground, at the building site of the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center in New York, Sept. 29, 1932.
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Parking meters arrive in Los Angeles,June 1949
Mrs. Barbara Steele and daughter get a warning tag from Officer Harvey Bauler for overtime parking in newly established parking meter area on Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood.
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Is this the most extraordinary human brain ever seen?
An adult brain discovered in a collection in Texas is entirely smooth – free of the ridges and folds so characteristic of our species' most complex organ
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5 Facts You Didn't Know About The Beatles
The Beatles are probably the most influential musicians of the 20th century, but did you know they really wanted to star in a movie version of Lord of the Rings? Thankfully, Stanley Kubrick had the good sense to turn them down.
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Apple Is Turning Into Polaroid
Apple’s slump looks a lot like the decline of a certain iconic camera company.
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Sarin: the deadly history of the nerve agent used in Syria
The UN has confirmed that the chemical used in Damascus last month was sarin – a lethal poison with no taste, no smell and no colour. Which makes it one of the most murderous weapons in modern warfare
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Archeologists in Brazil find 200,000 items, including toothbrush thought to be emperorâs
An ivory toothbrush thought to have belonged to Brazil’s Emperor Pedro II and a minty toothpaste made by a European chemist for the Portuguese queen are among more than 200,000 pieces dating from the 17th through 19th centuries that archeologists have unearthed from a site in Rio de Janeiro being used for an extension the city’s subway lines.
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Castle of Decay
This castle was build in the late 1800s and was abandoned in 1991. Since then it has been rotting away.
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Novel story: 14 little known facts about the writing of 1984
George Orwell's 1984 has been translated into sixty-five languages, yet is one of the world's top ten most banned books. What is it about this iconic novel, which has made it so widely read yet so subversive? To find out read these little known facts about the story of its creation.
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How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals?
An updated estimate says it could be at least 210,000 patients a year, more than twice the number in a frequently quoted Institute of Medicine report
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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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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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Bolivian Women In A 1943 Department Store
As Bolivian officials embraced trade and a more “hands off” approach to the economy in the 20th century, Bolivians (many of whom are indigenous) were exposed to the fruits of industry and the comforts it claims to provide. Nevertheless, living conditions for the majority of Bolivians remained derelict, and soon enough the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement overthrew the capitalist regime in 1952.
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Ten Things I Didn’t Know About Google
Interesting stuff which didn't fit into our big cover story.
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It's the end of the light bulb as we know it
With new, stricter efficiency standards almost upon us, it's time to start thinking differently about your lights. Here's why you should feel fine.
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Blame Steve Ballmer for Microsoft's woes? Not so fast
The great counter-factual scenario: What if proponents of an Internet-centric strategy had won the day and what if the courts had not overturned a judge's order to break up Microsoft?
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