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Innovation: Who Made Movie Popcorn?
In the 1920s, movie palaces rose up around the country like so many portals into a glamorous world. After you bought a ticket, you might pass through gilded archways and ascend a grand staircase lighted by a crystal chandelier to find your velvet seat.
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America has low taxes …so why do people feel ripped off?
Today is the 100th anniversary of the federal income tax, which was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on October 3, 1913. To mark the occasion, Moyers & Company caught up with David Cay Johnston, who has probably forgotten more about our tax code than most economic experts ever knew.
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Harley Davidson Mobile Booking Cage, 1920s
Doesn't look all that safe.
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The History of Knives, Forks and Spoons
You use them every day. They're some of the most simple, but useful, devices in existence. They're used the world over. But who, exactly, invented knives, forks and spoons?
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Einstein's Corpus Callosum Explains His Genius-Level Intellect
Einstein was undoubtedly one of the most influential physicists of all time, advancing concepts in quantum physics and gaining enormous notoriety for his theory of relativity. It comes as no surprise that Einstein’s brain appears physiologically distinct from that of the average individual. A recent study has sought to explain the man’s genius-level intellect, in part, based a difference in a structure called the corpus callosum.
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James Bond is Back But is He Any Good without Fleming?
Acclaimed British novelist William Boyd has the impossible task of conjuring up a new Bond novel with Solo, but can his effort match up to Ian Fleming’s creation? Robert McCrum wonders.
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Hitler’s Killer Women Revealed in New History
A new book pulls back the veil on the widespread involvement of women in the Third Reich’s most murderous and brutal activities. An exclusive excerpt from Wendy Lower’s Hitler’s Furies.
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Vehicle graveyard left in Chernobyl
From the year 2000. Couldn't find original source.
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The Longform Guide to the Music Industry
Featuring the man who made Bieber, how Nickelback cashes in, and the incredible story of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
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The last days of Kenya's 'Lunatic Line'
The soon-to-be-retired railway opened up the East African interior a century ago, connecting it to the coast, the port and the world.
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Leonardo da Vinci painting lost for centuries found in Swiss bank vault
A 500-year-old mystery was apparently solved today after a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci was discovered in a Swiss bank vault. The painting, which depicts Isabella d’Este, a Renaissance noblewoman, was found in a private collection of 400 works kept in a Swiss bank by an Italian family who asked not to be identified.
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Mercedes-Benz S550 is a triumph of technology
The days when luxury in a car meant shiny chrome on the outside and dead trees and cows on the inside have long faded. This is 2013, when even high-tech can fail to impress: Cut-rate hatchbacks have navigation systems, and the average Ford can park itself.
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The Evolution of Oktoberfest: A Historical Timeline
As Oktoberfest Munich 2013 wraps up, lets take a closer look at the history of the most famous beer festival in the world and how it's evolved over the years.
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And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’
Go behind the scenes of Steve Jobs's first iPhone unveiling in 2007. See how Apple's project "occasionally threatened to derail the entire corporation."
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Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies?
Movie theater popcorn is a concession stand staple whose scent has spawned marketing ploys and copycat recipes, but movie theaters haven’t always been saturated with the tempting smell of salt and butter. The history of popcorn is vast, and it intersects with movies in the relatively recent past–a symbiosis of taste and place created to save the fledgling movie theater industry from near collapse during the Great Depression.
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Land Rover Defender production ends
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said it will stop production of its Defender model in 2015 because it will not meet new European laws on fuel emissions. The last of the 4x4 models will roll off the production line at its plant in Solihull in the West Midlands in December 2015, it confirmed.
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Hawaii Formed Differently than Believed, Study Suggests
Hawaii formed through the eruptions of lava on the surface, also known as extrusion, rather than through the internal emplacement of magma, as previously believed.
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The Hunt for Houdini’s Airplane
Amateur detectives have found clues to the fate of the magician’s biplane.
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Archaeologists unearth Sweden's own Pompeii
Swedish archeologists have uncovered the remains of a brutal fifth century massacre at a remote island fort, described as being 'frozen in time' like the ruins of the Roman city of Pompeii. Bodies of victims slaughtered in the violence on the island of Öland, just off the Swedish coast, have remained untouched for centuries, and were found to resemble a modern day crime scene.
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Marilyn Monroe plastic surgery notes, X-rays up for auction
A physician's notes on Marilyn Monroe that indicate that the Hollywood sex symbol had undergone cosmetic surgery will be up for sale next month along with a set of her X-rays, an auction house said on Tuesday.
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