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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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The NRA in 1905: More Mustaches, Less Politics
But the same close ties to gun manufacturers.
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Vietnam War: Behind the Picture
Forty years after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973, LIFE.com revisits one of the most indelible, searing photographs made during the long, divisive war in Vietnam.
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Please Feed The Meters: The Next Parking Revolution
Thereâs plenty to hate about drivingâtraffic jams, car accidents, speeding ticketsânot to mention the endless headache of finding a sp...
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Detailed Photos of Cold War Missile Sites: Opposing Superpowers, Same Terror
The idea that we are not so different from our enemies is one of the undercurrents of Justin Barton's photographs of former Cold War Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launch sites. Graphically composed, Barton's shots of the silos' interiors downplay national identity.
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Exclusive New Texts from Scientology’s L. Ron Hubbard
Newly discovered tall tales from the scientology founder’s favorite club.
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America’s Shameful Nazi Past
It might be ancient history that the U.S. hired and protected thousands of Nazi war criminals, but there’s no time like the present to right those wrongs. Richard Rashke on what Obama can do now.
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Scientists First Glimpse Interior of an Antarctic Subglacial Lake
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MIDI turns 30: a revolutionary open music standard lives on
Makin' sweet music with the Musical Instrument Digital Interface
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