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The Woody Allen Allegations: Not So Fast
Twenty-one years after the first allegations that Woody Allen abused his adopted daughter, that incident is back in the news thanks to the director’s ex-partner, Mia Farrow, and estranged son, Ronan Farrow. But what does a closer examination reveal?
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Himmler never mentioned Holocaust to wife despite her dislike of Jews - letters
A cache of letters, photos, and diaries belonging to SS leader Heinrich Himmler reveals he never mentioned the Holocaust to his wife – though she apparently shared his hatred for Jews. A German newspaper published excerpts from the collection on Sunday.
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Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Marks 28th Anniversary
Tuesday marks the 28th anniversary since tragedy struck NASA’s space shuttle program for the first time.
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How a 1940s Gangster Film Foresaw the Surveillance Tech of Today
White Heat is a classic gangster film from 1949, starring James Cagney. It is a thoroughly Los Angeles flick, filmed almost exclusively in the Greater Los Angeles region, including scenes shot at Warner Brother Studios in Burbank. The film is considered a classic for many reasons—but what's interesting specifically in terms of Gizmodo is its depiction of what, at the time, cutting-edge technologies that have been adapted by the police to track down Cagney's gang.
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How Sochi Became the Gay Olympics
The Winter Games are serving as a barometer for the international politics of LGBT rights.
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Auschwitz survivors mark liberation anniversary
Auschwitz survivors and Israeli officials on Monday marked 69 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp, in a ceremony that included a large group of Israeli lawmakers. The ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial took place on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established by the United Nations in memory of some 6 million Holocaust victims, and some 1.5 million victims of Auschwitz, who were mostly Jews.
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First Porsche revealed to be an electric car from 1898
Luxury automaker Porsche has revealed the first car designed by its founder was electric, in a show at its museum in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany. Ferdinand Porsche's design was dubbed the Egger-Lohner electric vehicle C.2 Phaeton model, or the P1 for short.
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The Mysterious Book That Nobody Can Read Or Decipher
It's a book that contains 360 pages, is based on an imaginary world and comes complete with pages upon pages of hand-drawn illustrations that are both surreal and abstract in nature. For example, t...
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Ancient Plague's DNA Revived From A 1,500-Year-Old Tooth
Plague may have hastened the fall of the Roman Empire. Its DNA reveals ancient roots in China.
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The Deathbed Confessions of William Butler Yeats
Seventy-five years ago today—on January 28, 1939—William Butler Yeats died at a boarding house on the French Riviera. He was 73 years old, at the height of his fame and glory. “Mr. Yeats frequently let his mind roam far afield in the realm of fancy,” gushed the New York Times obituary, “and it is for the gentle beauty of such works that he was hailed by many as the greatest poet of his time in the English language.”
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Forget Kim Jong Un—China’s New Favorite Dictator Is Belarus’s Aleksandr Lukashenko.
Forget Kim Jong Un—lately, the bigwigs in Beijing have been heaping praise on Aleksandr Lukashenko, the man Condoleezza Rice once nicknamed “Europe’s last dictator.”
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Eclectic Method - A Brief History of Sampling
A video remix journey through the history of sampling taking in some of the most noted breaks and riffs of the decades. A chronological journey from the Beatles’ use of the Mellotron in the 60s to the sample dense hiphop and dance music of the 80s and 90s. Each break is represented by a vibrating vinyl soundwave exploding into various tracks that sampled it, each re-use another chapter in the modern narrative.
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Inside the Secret Market for Nazi-Looted Art
The German dealer who left 1,400 works to his son was part of a network of dealers and others in Munich who helped implement the Nazi looting program, conceal stolen works, and sell them after the war
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The Unstoppable Rise of the BuzzFeed Quiz
Ten years later, our quiz-sharing platforms have evolved, but our love of quizzes remains exactly the same. The narcissism evident in those long-ago Web 1.0 quizzes has wrapped around to again become popular. If you have a Facebook account, you’ve probably noticed that all of your friends are sharing BuzzFeed quizzes with reckless abandon.
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10 Failed Utopian Cities That Influenced the Future
Some of the most famous cities in history were never built. These 10 Utopian cities may have been failures, but they expressed our ideas about what the future of human civilization could look like. And many ideas contained in them continue to influence us today.
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Galileo’s Moon Drawings, the First Realistic Depictions of the Moon in History
Galileo Galilei did not invent the telescope. The honor is usually reserved for Hans Libbershey, a Dutch eyeglass maker, who was at least the first person to apply for a patent, in 1608. But Galileo was a very early adopter, and improver, of the instrument. In 1609, he made the drawings above “from life,” the very first realistic renderings of the Moon (now housed at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence).
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9 questions about Ukraine you were too embarrassed to ask
What's happening in Ukraine is really important, but it can also be confusing and difficult to follow for outsiders who don't know the history that led up to – and, in some crucial ways, explains – this crisis. Here, then, are the most basic answers to your most basic questions. First, a disclaimer: this is not an exhaustive or definitive account of Ukraine's story, just some background, written so that anyone can understand it.
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Mexico's Haunted Island Of The Dolls Is Actually Terrifying
Just to the south of Mexico City is a rural area named Xochimilco (so-chee-meel-koh) which translates into ‘a place of flowers’ – it paints of picturesque scene of calm and serenity doesn't it? But...
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Tech Time Warp of the Week: The Horrifying Apple Super Bowl Ad That Time Forgot, 1985
In 1985, Steve Jobs and company ran a TV ad called Lemmings, which you can watch above. The ad once again painted the IBM crowd as drone-like humans under a godawful spell, and it aimed to ramp up interest in Apple’s latest brainstorm: the Macintosh Office. The only trouble is the ad actually turned people off, not on — and the product it pitched wouldn’t be ready for years.
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How Edward Snowden went from loyal NSA contractor to whistleblower
He was politically conservative, a gun owner, a geek – and the man behind the biggest intelligence leak in history. In this exclusive extract from his new book, Luke Harding looks at Edward Snowden's journey from patriot to America's most wanted
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