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20 Black & White Pictures amazingly restored in Colour
This is really amazing, 20 historic black and white photographs that are restored in colour. This is called colorised and although this looks simple it is complex and difficult process, truly a work of art. The photographs really come back to life, because the artist tried to make the photograph colours as accurate as possible.
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Zynga’s darkest moments
Pretty much everything has gone wrong at social gaming company Zynga. Here's some of their darkest moments.
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What We Found at Hart Island, The Largest Mass Grave Site In the U.S.
It’s a place where few living New Yorkers have ever set foot, but nearly a million dead ones reside: Hart Island, the United States’ largest mass grave, which has been closed to the public for 35 years. It is difficult to visit and off-limits to photographers. But that may be about to change, as a debate roils over the city’s treatment of the unclaimed dead. Never heard of Hart? You’re not alone--and that’s part of the problem.
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That Time Nazis Marched to "Keep Redskins White"
Currently, Washington, DC's pro football team, the [Redacted], has the distinction of being the only team in the NFL whose name is a racial slur. A little more than 50 years ago, it had another unfortunate distinction: It was the last remaining all-white team in the league.
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The Best "Psychic" Scam of All Time
Why do we believe people can predict the future? Usually because we remember the hits and forget the misses. Or in some cases, the misses are hidden from us. Like in my favorite "psychic" scam ever, which also happens to be the plot of a classic 1957 Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode, "Mail Order Prophet."
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"Forgotten hero"- Statue honours evolution pioneer
The 100th anniversary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace, the "forgotten hero" who co-discovered evolution, is being marked today in London.
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Nixon Had It Right: The Government Should Be Wiretapped
Back in 2003, it was already well established that the US federal government was using new surveillance powers found in the Patriot Act to investigate crimes unrelated to terrorism. In 2001, the ACLU detailed how the FBI issued 143,074 national security letters (which come with gag orders), resulting in 53 criminal referrals, of which only one was for terrorism.
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It’s the Umami, Stupid. Why the Truth About MSG is So Easy to Swallow
Few remember that the food pariah and hot trend are so closely connected.
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Home where Oswald slept night before Kennedy assassination now museum
The suburban Dallas home where Lee Harvey Oswald spent the night before he assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy opened as a museum on Wednesday ahead of the 50th anniversary of
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I Noticed This Tiny Thing On Google Maps. When I Zoomed In... Well, Nothing Could Prepare Me.
A friend told me to go to a certain latitude and longitude on Google Maps. When I noticed it seemed to be in the middle of an African desert, I thought he was just sending nonsense. But when I zoomed in, my mind was blown. I noticed a tiny icon that looked like an airplane. So I did some more research and discovered there’s an incredibly tragic and beautiful story behind it. Here it is, from start to finish.
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WWII Doolittle Raiders making final toast
" The few surviving Doolittle Raiders are making their final toast to comrades who died in or since their World War II bombing attack on Japan.
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30 Things You No Longer Need Because of Smartphones
Dear kids - this is what your iPhone used to look like...
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A Look Back At Area, the '80s Club That Turned Partying Into An Art.
"It was more important that we make our mark than make it rich," says Eric Goode, one of the four founders of the legendary nightclub Area, which was only open from 1983 to 1987, but managed to be more influential and memorable than Studio 54. And those memories -- of over-the-top art installations, decadent after-hours antics and the famous and fabulous
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Has the Code of The Zodiac Killer Been Cracked?
Corey Starliper believes he has solved the 41-year-old "340" cipher and has identified the legendary serial killer who terrorized northern California.
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The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald Nov. 10 ,1975
Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald November 10, 1975. Complete history with links and pictures
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The way out of a room is not through the door
It started with the jitterbug, or with a ketchup bottle. Kathleen Maddox couldn’t get away with dancing in her hometown. Ashland, Kentucky in 1934 was too small, and if she let a boy hold her hand word would always get back to her mother Nancy, a strict Christian widow...
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War poet's lost novel uncovered
A previously unknown novel by a celebrated World War One poet has been described as a "jewel of a find".
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The girl whose rape changed a country
She was attacked at a rural police station, and her landmark case awakened India decades ago. But did she manage to love, have children, find happiness? New headlines about rape in my homeland set me on a journey to find her.
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The Lonely Guy
He’s a community organizer who works alone. What was once his greatest strength—he kept his cool and didn’t need feedback—is now a liability.
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The Nazi Anatomists
How the corpses of Hitler's victims are still haunting modern science—and American abortion politics.
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