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Portrait found to be Van Dyck work
A painting bought for £400 and featured on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow has been revealed to be a Sir Anthony Van Dyck portrait worth about £400,000.
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Snowden's biggest revelation: We don't know what power is anymore, nor do we care
It’s been a busy end of 2013 for the Snowden/NSA story: a pair of conflicting judicial rulings on the legality or illegality of the NSA’s phone surveillance program; an Obama-appointed panel recommending mild NSA reforms, including scaling back the NSA’s phone metadata vacuuming program; a rare and remarkably unrevealing interview with Snowden in the Washington Post, in which Snowden declared “Mission Accomplished”; followed up by a rather sad “Snowden Xmas Message” aired on Britain’s Channel 4.
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Map of the British Empire in 1886
This map is just before the Scramble for Africa where within 15 years, most of the continent had also been divided up between European powers, with the British Empire getting a very large share.
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The set of Jeopardy! from 1964-1975.
The original daytime version aired on NBC from March 30, 1964 to January 3, 1975, then spawned a weekly nighttime syndicated edition that aired from September 9, 1974 to September 5, 1975, and was later revived as The All-New Jeopardy!, which ran from October 2, 1978 to March 2, 1979. The program's most successful incarnation is the daily syndicated version, which premiered on September 10, 1984.
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Jimi Hendrix's London flat to become permanent museum
23 Brook Street – the rooms rented in the late 1960s by Jimi Hendrix, poignantly described by him as "the only home I ever had".
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The Top 10 fastest red cards of all-time
Sunderland midfielder David Meyler made the headlines for all the wrong reasons on Tuesday night when he was sent off just two minutes after coming on as a substitute against Portsmouth. Pretty impressive, huh? Pah, don't you believe it, that's nothing. Just check out these ten fellas who took no time at all to see red...
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$0.60 for cake: Al-Qaida records every expense
In more than 100 receipts left in a building occupied by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb in Timbuktu earlier this year, the extremists assiduously tracked their cash flow, recording purchases as small as a single light bulb. The often tiny amounts are carefully written out in pencil and colored pen on scraps of paper and Post-it notes: The equivalent of $1.80 for a bar of soap; $8 for a packet of macaroni; $14 for a tube of super glue.
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The NSA’s Metadata Program Is Perfectly Constitutional
his month two judges issued two different opinions about the NSA’s controversial bulk metadata collection program. Judge Richard Leon ruled in Washington, D.C., that the program likely violated the law. Judge William Pauley ruled in New York that the program did not violate the law. Judge Pauley’s opinion is both correct legally and more sensible than Judge Leon’s, but it’s not hard to imagine that even our conservative Supreme Court could go the other way.
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Why buying cocaine is like donating to the Nazi party
I don’t cover the narco war. I don’t even pretend to. I’m a science writer: I go to labs, talk to scientists and policymakers, and occasionally get on boats that take me out to see cool underwater critters. I live in Mexico City, which is about as safe as living...
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Drug-War Mission Gone Wrong
Why are we still fighting the drug war?
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The Most Popular Stories Of 2013 Chosen By You
2013 Has been our biggest year yet! Over the past 8,765 hours we hope our stories have entertained, informed, inspired, shocked & given you a damn good laugh during the year. (We'd certainly ha...
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USS Franklin - The most heavily damaged aircraft carrier to survive WWII
She was badly damaged by a Japanese air attack in March 1945, with the loss of over 800 of her crew.
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33 cops killed by gunfire in 2013, the lowest number since 1887
A report says 2013 may have been one of the safest years in modern history for American police.
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Epic Huge 80s Commercial Mix
About 4 hours of 80s commercials. doubt anyone will watch it all, but I figured id post it for the sake of the archives
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What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014?
Under the law that existed until 1978 . . . works from 1957.
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10 Amazing Things You Should Know About Sicily - Listverse
Mafia. Cosa nostra. The octopus. The plague. So many names and euphemisms are used to describe that terrible criminal organization that has rendered the island of Sicily so famous in the world
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Stop coddling your dog—he’s 99.9% wolf
The role of dogs has changed. People have moved from rural lives to urban lives. A few decades ago, most dogs lived outside and were never allowed in the house. Today, the opposite is true. A hundred years ago, dogs worked as herders, hunters, or fighters. Today they are companions and family members.
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Women and Sexual Harassment in 1980s
As a rookie reporter at the Wall Street Journal in the 1980s, while working on one of my first articles, the businessman I was interviewing locked his office door, leered at me and stripped down to his underwear. Alarmed but not knowing what to do, I kept asking my questions, jotting notes in my reporter’s pad. Then I escaped as fast as I could. I was reminded of that long-ago encounter while watching The Wolf of Wall Street...
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Spain’s Cultural Success Under Franco
Seventy-five years after its conclusion, the Spanish Civil War can sometimes seem like a river of blood that led inexorably to the sea of horrors that was World War II. But Spain’s battle was also a devastating conflict in its own right, killing approximately 500,000 people. The war, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, pitted the Republicans, loyal to the existing government, against the Nationalists, a rightist rebel coalition led by General Francisco Franco.
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A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home
Our approach to thinking, from the early days of the computer era, focused on the question of how to represent the knowledge about which thoughts are thought, and the rules that operate on that knowledge. So when advances in technology made artificial intelligence a viable field in the 1940s and 1950s, researchers turned to formal symbolic processes. After all, it seemed easy to represent “There’s a cat on the mat” in terms of symbols and logic
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