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The Truths Behind 'Dr. Strangelove'
The Soviets did have a doomsday machine, and a rogue American officer could have launched a nuclear attack.
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Mohnke plans to plan (Hitler parody video)
Created by Hitler Rants Parodies Clips from Downfall (Der Untergang)
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Over 500 artifacts discovered in undersea trove near Jindo
Off the southern coast of Korea near Jindo Island, a team of Korean archaeologists have discovered a cornucopia of relics that they hope will provide a glimpse into the country’s rich history of cultural assets. Among the artifacts are a pair of ceramic jars believed to date back to the Three Kingdoms era (57 to 668 AD) and two items that look like yogo, an ancient prototype of janggo, the traditional hourglass-shaped double headed drum.
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Is It Time to Overhaul the Calendar?
A reformed calendar, with a pattern of two 30-day months, followed by one 31-day month, would be more business friendly
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Hitler's Toilet Is in New Jersey
Do toilets have a heaven? Have they an underworld? These are questions beyond our ken. We can, however, posit a place of Potty Purgatory: the great state of New Jersey.
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Life After Auschwitz: Inside the Town That the Nazis Made Infamous
Residents say Oświęcim is a perfectly normal place. But outsiders see only the concentration camps and wonder why anyone lives there at all
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The Jiggly History of Jell-O
For over a century, Jell-O has been a part of American culture and, according to a 1904 edition of the Ladies Home Journal, “America’s Favorite Dessert” (conveniently enough named such in an advertisement paid for by Jell-O before anyone was really buying it all). That said, ever since then it really has been one of the most popular deserts in America. The story of this fruit-flavored, gelatin-based icon includes good old-fashioned American ingenuity, brilliant marketing, and a wobbly start.
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'Super-rare' Nintendo game hits eBay
An extremely rare Nintendo game is expected to fetch thousands of dollars in an eBay auction. Only 116 copies of Nintendo World Championships were ever made, as part of a special event in 1990. The first bid came in at $4,999 (£3,000), but the game is likely to fetch more, one Nintendo expert said.
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A Mexican drug cartel's rise to dominance
The Sinaloa cartel is now the world's biggest supplier of illegal narcotics. How did it become so powerful?
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How You Might Come to Believe You've Been Abducted by an Alien
I BELIEVE IN UFOs, and alien beings out there somewhere, and I even kind of believe the story that an extraterrestrial spaceship crashed in Roswell in 1947 and the United States government covered it up. Or maybe it’s just that I adore all of the above, wholeheartedly, and have trouble telling the difference between my fandom and my faith.
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Cryptozoology: the mad science of monster hunting
There's science and then there's pseudoscience. But what about the grey area in between? Jack Flanagan looks at Cryptozoology, the science of legendary monsters.
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Why One Man Watched Every Episode of ‘Law & Order’ and Took Screenshots of All the Computers
Binge-watching is mainstream. And Law & Order is among the most popular television shows of all time. But nobody has binged on a show the way Jeffrey Thompson gorged himself on Law & Order. He not only took in all 456 episode in the procedural’s 20-year-run, in order. He also meticulously cataloged — with more than 11,000 screen shots — every single instance of a computer or similar technology that appeared on the show.
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The Archaeology of Beer
Ancient, hybrid brews embody a past before ale and wine became separate categories.
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Himmler hoard of letters and diaries discovered in Israel
Lost letters, photographs and diaries by Heinrich Himmler have been discovered in Israel, shedding new light on one of the men most directly responsible for the Holocaust. The stash of documents from the Nazi era is currently held in a bank vault in Tel Aviv, but has been authenticated by the German federal archive, considered the world's leading authority on material from the period
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Van Gogh's iconic 'Sunflowers' paintings reunited in London
Two of Vincent Van Gogh's most iconic paintings have been reunited for the first time in more than 60 years. The bright, yellow paintings of sunflowers will hang side-by-side at London's National Gallery. One painting is already on display in London, the other is on loan from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
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Thomas Perkins ridiculed after writing letter comparing the treatment of rich Americans to the Holocaust
A hyper-wealthy billionaire venture capitalist has faced ridicule after comparing the treatment of super-rich Americans to the Holocaust. Thomas Perkins, who is thought to be worth around $8bn, made the startling comparison in a letter to The Wall Street Journal in which he wrote of 'parallels' between the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany and what he describes as the "progressive war on the American one percent".
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How Boston College’s oral history of the Troubles fell victim to an international murder investigati
Anthony McIntyre made one thing clear: The project had to remain absolutely secret. If Boston College wanted him to interview former members of the Irish Republican Army, he needed that guarantee. They would be talking about dangerous things—bombings, shootings, and murder.
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Porsche reveals its first concept car in 1889, it was electric.
The first car developed by Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the namesake sports-car company in 1948, was unveiled in Stuttgart on Monday.
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How we made the video game Doom
We started work on something new in January 1993, putting out a press release announcing all the revolutionary things it was going to do: we said we fully expected it to cause the biggest loss of productivity in the world ever.
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Our Fastest Cameras Are Now 10 Billion Trillion Times Faster Than the First Cameras
Photographs from different eras are deceptively similar. A photograph from 1860 and one taken on our smartphones are both called the same thing, after all. And yet, the resemblance of the end product masks that there have been huge changes in the way that photographs are made. What was once a slow, rare chemical process has become a ubiquitous, electronic one.
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