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Steve Jobs Was Overrated as a CEO
Former Apple CEO John Sculley built Apple into a powerhouse and laid the groundwork for the iPod.
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6 Old Photos of Kids Who Are Way Tougher Than Modern Adults
What's the most badass picture of you as a kid? Maybe that time you pretended to lift a truck that was having a tire changed. Or that other time your family ran into Mike Tyson on vacation and you pretended to knock him out. Both these instances ended in tears. But, more to the point, the keyword in all these photos is "pretended" -- something that the kids from before the invention of color photography didn't need to do to look like total badasses.
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Merging the Past and Present of Anne Frank's Amsterdam
A representative from the iconic museum finally had the opportunity to reach out to us and let us know that our posts about the work of Sergey Larenkov have inspired them to create their own versions of images that merge the past and present. Like Larenkov's photography, the images that serve as the past are derived from the World War II era, though their version focuses primarily on Amsterdam, where Frank spent most of her time hiding.
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A 14th Amendment for all centuries
Democrats want the President to invoke the 14th Amendment in order to avert a debt ceiling crisis. The historical events that helped create the amendment are strangely reminiscent of our current predicament.
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The First Words of 11 Famous People
There are plenty of stories about the last words of famous people, some true, many apocryphal. The last words of John Quincy Adams were “This is the last of Earth! I am content.” Oscar Wilde’s were “Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.” For Douglas Fairbanks Sr. it was “Never felt better.” Less well known are the first words of the famous. Since no one can predict how famous a baby might turn out to be, the first words of the famous are often left unrecorded
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Airline food through the ages
On this day in 1919, the first airline meal - a three-shilling lunchbox - was served between London and Paris. Here are some more notable moments in the history of plane food
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Whose science is it anyway?
Marie Curie, discoverer of radium and winner of two Nobel prizes, put the matter characteristically bluntly: "Science is essentially international. It is only through lack of a historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it." Not that you would think so if you have followed the science news this week. As the Nobel prizes for 2013 have been announced, each nation's media have rushed to claim the winners as their own.
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The little-told story of the massive WWII pet cull
At the beginning of World War II, a government pamphlet led to a massive cull of British pets. As many as 750,000 British pets were killed in just one week. This little-discussed moment of panic is explored in a new book.
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The Worst Acquisitions Apple Ever Made
Some of the technologies Apple has bought never made it to market and others just didn't seem to fit in with Apple's other products.
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Story of Jesus Christ was 'fabricated to pacify the poor', claims controversial Biblical scholar
A controversial American biblical scholar is set to make his first appearance in London next week to present a discovery that he claims proves the story of Jesus Christ was invented as a system of mind control to enslave the poor.
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John McAfee: Addict, coder, runaway
Who is the real John McAfee? He's the man who went on the run after his neighbour was found dead, face-up, with a bullet in his head. He's the man who jump-started the multibillion-dollar anti-virus industry. And now he thinks he can make you invisible on the internet.
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'Baby Hope' has a name, a suspect in her death
Twenty-two years later, she has a name. The little girl known only as "Baby Hope," whose abused and decomposed body was found in an ice chest by the side of a New York roadway in 1991, is 4-year-old Anjelica Castillo, New York police announced Saturday.
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The Roman bathhouse still in daily use
Roman ruins are rarely boisterous places, full of noise, laughter and life. But Edward Lewis stumbled across one that is - a place to have a daily wash, and to enjoy the companionship of friends, just as it was for the Romans who built it.
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Magisterial 'Wilson' explains why the 28th president is ignored
When historians are asked to name our greatest president, Woodrow Wilson is consistently ranked near the top. He was president during the Progressive Era and championed many of its reforms, including the eight-hour workday, a federal income tax and government regulation of big business.
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Stalin's Blue Pencil
Joseph Djugashvili (later Stalin) was a student in a theological seminary when he came across the writings of Vladimir Lenin and decided to become a Bolshevik revolutionary. Thereafter, in addition to blowing things up, robbing banks, and organizing strikes, he became an editor, working at two papers in Baku and then as editor of the first Bolshevik daily, Pravda. Lenin admired Djugashvili's editing; Djugashvili admired Lenin, and rejected 47 articles he submitted to Pravda.
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Who Made That Android Logo?
Irina Blok may have drawn one of the most recognized logos in the world, but her association with the green Android has not made her famous. Blok can think of only one incident when she garnered the public’s attention for designing it.
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Scientists Find Evidence Of Prehistoric Recycling
If you thought the green movement was a 21st century phenomenon, you’re off by about half a million years. Research shows our prehistoric, cave-dwelling ancestors also lived by the apothegm of the Three Rs (reduced, reuse, recycle).
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Economics Nobel Has a Better Record Than 'Real' Ones
Tomorrow, the Nobel Foundation will announce the winner of the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel," which was established in 1969. Wags like to point out that this isn't nearly as impressive as an "actual" Nobel Prize because it wasn't included in Nobel's original list.
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How This 75 Year-Old Piece of Paper Started Modern Computing
Seventy-five years ago, this piece of paper started the modern computing trend and changed offices forever.
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The Forgotten Startup That Inspired Google’s Brilliant Business Model
The idea that made Google the world’s greatest search engine was all Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But the idea that set it on the path to becoming the world’s greatest company wasn’t theirs originally. It was borrowed, with some key modifications, from their biggest early rival.
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