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The Rise and Fall—and Rise—of Facial Hair
There was a time when the best option was to wear both sideburns and a mustache.
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With Great Computing Power Comes Great Surveillance
We have yet to fully grasp the implications of cheap surveillance. The only thing that is certain is that we will be seeing a great deal more surveillance—of ordinary citizens, potential terrorists, and heads of state—and that it will have major consequences.
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Video Game Arcades in the 1990s, according to a guy in 1984
TV Gamer, July 1984 - It's not often you find gold in old game magazines, but man, this is absolutely fascinating. "How to play Adventures in the 1990s" by Richard Porch is a fever dream of what Arcades would be like in the decade coming up.
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Harper Lee Makes $9000 A Day From "To Kill A Mockingbird" she wrote 50 years ago.
Harper began writing a collection of short stories about racism in her hometown of Monroeville. She submitted the stories to her agent Michael Crain and an editor at the publishing house J.B. Lippincott & Co. Both men convinced Harper that the stories should be developed into a full length novel. She spent two and a half years crafting what would eventually become "To Kill A Mockingbird".
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Who Made That Dial Tone?
Never before had an American telephone company employed this signal, says Roger Conklin, a telephone collector and historian. Until then, the leading telephone provider, the Bell System, relied on its corps of “hello girls” to connect lines at central switchboards so no dial tone was necessary.
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Alternate History Short Story: Anne Frank Survives the Holocaust
Anne Frank and her family fled the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany by immigrating to the Netherlands. After Germany conquered the Netherlands, they and a few other people lived in hidden rooms in in a house in Amsterdam. In 1944, Dutch Nazi police discovered the secret rooms and shipped the inhabitants off to concentration camps. Anne Frank died at the Bergen-Belsen camp in March of 1945. She was only 15 years old.
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The VW Campervan: Wheels of style
The Volkswagen Type 2 has been taken out of production after over thirty years. Jonathan Glancey looks back at the history of a much-loved design.
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Absinthe: How the Green Fairy became literature’s drink
It has inspired many great authors of the last 150 years – and may have ruined some as well. Jane Ciabattari investigates the green spirit’s peculiar power.
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The Time A Serial Killer Was on the Loose in Nazi Berlin
Berlin, 1940. Late one a night a railway worker boards her train home and chats with a man. Then everything goes wrong.
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Photographer Inserts Her Adult Self Into Photos From Her Childhood
London-based photographer Chino Otsuka has earned the nickname “The Time Traveling Photographer” thanks to her series entitled Imagine Finding Me. In the photo series, Chino cleverly inserts her adult self into various childhood photos, often mimicking the pose she had as a child.
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Winston Churchill interviewed in 1939: “The British people would rather go down fighting”
In January 1939, as Germany and Russia rearmed, Kingsley Martin, the editor of the New Statesman, spoke to the former chancellor and war secretary about the prospects of conflict and how Britain should prepare.
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A Living Time Capsule Shows the Human Mark on Evolution
Scientists have revived shrimp-like animals that have been buried at the bottom of the lake for an estimated 700 years. If this estimate holds up to further testing, they are the oldest animals ever resurrected.
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Last Blockbuster video stores close for good Sunday
Once the king of video rentals, Blockbuster closes its 300 remaining stores for good this weekend, including local franchises in Clermont, Ocala, Oviedo and Sanford. On Saturday, the day before Blockbuster's last day open for business, the Clermont location was swarming with customers who haven't been by in years.
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Classic 90's - The Kids Guide to the Internet
A classic video that helps show kids how to use the internet/email/chat. Very 90's and very funny to watch.
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Before There Was Computer Porn, There Was This Guy
Larry Laffer, the concupiscent software salesman, is thinner than I remembered. He’s still goofy, though, dressed in his trademark permanent-press white leisure suit, black shirt and gold chains. He’s still terrible around women, always saying the wrong thing, always in pressing need of Binaca. And at the moment, he’s getting pissed on by a black dog as he tries to figure out how to walk through the entrance of Lefty’s, a dive bar located in the city of Lost Wages (get it?).
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100 Years Of Smoking Studies In Popular Science
Fifty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general first declared that smoking tobacco causes lung cancer. Popular Science readers could have known that was coming.
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UK engineer gives new theory on how pyramids were built
Ancient Egyptians created pyramids by piling up rubble on the inside and attaching bricks on the outside later, according to a new theory proposed by a British engineer. Peter James, an engineer at Cintec International in Newport, South Wales, has stunned archaeologists by claiming their theories on how pyramids were built are wrong. According to the currently accepted belief, pyramids were built with giant blocks carried up huge ramps.
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Noam Chomsky: Sabra & Shatila Massacre That Forced Sharon’s Ouster Recalls Worst of Jewish Pogroms
We look at one of the most shocking incidents in the career of the late former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Up to 2,000 Palestinians died on Sept. 16-17, 1982, when the Israeli military allowed a Christian militia to attack the camp.
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12 Years a Slave Review
Steve McQueen directs Solomon Northup's harrowing journey into slavery in 12 Years a Slave, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. Read the full review here.
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Life-size Titanic replica to be at heart of Chinese theme park
A life-sized replica of the Titanic will become the centrepiece of a landlocked theme park in China, featuring a museum and a shipwreck simulation to give visitors a sense of the 1912 disaster
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