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Vintage Vegas: Rare Photos of a Desert Boomtown
Of all the major destination towns in the U.S., Las Vegas might be the most perfectly, unashamedly transparent. No other city in North America, after all — and perhaps no other city in the world — has for so long been so identified with one pursuit: namely, the heart-pounding, more-often-than-not-futile hunt for the improbable, near mythic Big Score.
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Lake Vostok Water Ice Has Been Obtained
In February 2012 Russian scientists and engineers drilled to a depth of nearly 4,000 meters in the ice above Lake Vostok – a 1,300 cubic mile volume of liquid water thought to have formed some 20 million years ago and to have been effectively isolated from the outside world for at least 100,000 years.
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The Myth of Technological Unemployment
In 2012, a lot of firms employed a lot of new labor-saving technology in order to increase profits. That's true. But the same happened in 1992 and 1972 and 1952 and, for that matter, 1852.
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8 Ways America Was Better Off During the Cold War
In many ways the Cold War era in America was a nightmare. In other ways, we're actually worse off now.
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The Real Cuban Missile Crisis
Everything you think you know about those 13 days is wrong.
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Humans Had Mastered Fire by 1,000,000 B.C.
Archaeologists have found that people began tending fires long before they were even people, exactly. Until recently, the oldest documented man-made fire dated to 790,000 years ago; it was found in 2004 at a dig in Israel.
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Real life Django: The Life and Times of Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves
Over his 32-year career as a Deputy U.S. Marshal, Bass Reeves arrested 3,000 felons, killed 14 men, and was never shot himself. His reputation for persistence, his total fearlessness, his skills with a gun, and his ability to outsmart outlaws struck terror into lawbreakers in what we now call Oklahoma. Although other colorful characters made their way into our pop culture, Bass was the real badass of the Old West.
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30 Beautifully Haunting Shipwrecks From Around the World
Naval history is full of fatal accidents and wartime losses. Even knowing that, it's astonishing to think that, according to a United Nations report, there are more than 3 million shipwrecks on the ocean floor.
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A tale of two dinosaurs: Polaroid and Technicolor struggle to stay relevant
Polaroid and Technicolor are known as trailblazers that grew into iconic American brands. However, both companies have gone through so much trauma over the last decade.
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Hitler the Cat, Star of the 1939 World’s Fair
You might think that being an Adolf Hitler doppelgänger in 1939 would hinder one’s success, but this cat was a star at that year’s World’s Fair.
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Rare, Intimate Photographs from the Kennedy White House
Fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy was elected the youngest president of the United States, moving his work and his family to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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When NK Commandos Tried To Assassinate South Korea’s President
Breaking North Korea News, Opinion, Culture & Curiosities + Professional, Academic & Student resources on North Korea / DPRK
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The Animals That Have Taken Refuge in Chernobyl’s Radioactive Zone
Read Mary Mycio’s story about Chernobyl’s wildlife here. When Mary Mycio tells people she visited the radioactive fallout zone around Chernobyl to study the region’s animals, the questions are always the same. Do the animals have two heads? Do they glow?
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Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks Plan New WWII Mini-Series
The follow-up to Band of Brothers and The Pacific will be based on Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller and focus on the Air Force.
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Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris
Although some of these images might look like a modern day photography and some of them like painted pictures, actually it is real colored photographies, taken at the beginning of the 20th century Paris (France). It is extremely astonishing to look at the world now long gone, the world which you are used to see in black & white images and often with poor quality.
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Ancient DNA reveals humans living 40,000 years ago in Beijing area related to present-day Asians, Native Americans
An international team of researchers including Svante Pääbo and Qiaomei Fu of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA that had been extracted from the leg of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave near Beijing, China.
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When Women Used Lysol as Birth Control
A look back at shocking ads for the popular, dangerous, and ineffective antiseptic douche.
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Eric Prokopi’s Curious Trade in Mongolian Dinosaurs
Unlike the U.S., most other nations with rich dinosaur deposits consider fossils part of their national heritage and oppose or restrict their entry into the private market. Black-market fossils have regularly been sold through some of the world’s finest auction houses, but auctioneers have not been held accountable for their role.
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Fascinating Business Cards Of The World’s Most Famous People
Business cards can be surprisingly insightful—especially if they bear the names of history’s most famous personalities.
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“F Is for Fugitive”: A Fantastic 1864 Children’s Book About the Evil of Slavery
Abel Thomas, a Unitarian minister, writer, and antislavery activist from Philadelphia, published Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom, a children’s A-to-Z book about the evils of slavery, in 1864.
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