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Why Abercrombie Is Losing Its Shirt
Nobody knew teenagers like the retailer and its eccentric leader, Mike Jeffries. But taste can be so fickle.
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Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road
The idea of being fined for crossing the road at the wrong place can bemuse foreign visitors to the US, where the origins of so-called jaywalking lie in a propaganda campaign by the motor industry in the 1920s.
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World War 1 in 6 Minutes
Manny Man Does the history of World War 1 in six minutes. It's a quick and easy way to get up to speed on what the First World War was about, especially with the centenary going from 2014 to 2018! Of course it's six minutes so not every single detail is in there but you get the general gist of what happened! Enjoy!
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Dick Cavett Remembers Sid Caesar's Brilliant Career and Chaotic Life
Fame, wealth, talent, and glory don't guarantee happiness. There needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this, but should anyone have forgotten, this book provides a useful reminder.
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10 Bizarre Things You Didn't Know About Condoms
There are some mysteries to your favorite barrier method that even we didn't know about. And since you're probably looking to get laid this Valentine's weekend, why not impress your bedmate with some historically accurate and bizarrely factual pillow talk.
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Hit Songs of 2000
Following on from an amazing year 1999, the year 2000 had a lot to live up to when it came to music but it did not disappoint :)
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The troublesome history of the bitcoin exchange MtGox
Most, if not all, of the people interested in the bitcoin phenomenon have heard of MtGox, the Japanese bitcoin exchange. I’ll look in to some of the issues they’ve run into over the handful of years they’ve existed.
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The slow death of capital punishment in America
Public support for the death penalty is plummeting, and executions are down by more than half from a decade ago
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Can we save AM radio?
Before Facebook, before the internet, before cellphones and TV and even FM radio, there was AM radio. Entire families would gather around elaborate refrigerator-sized receivers and bask in the warm glow of vacuum tubes as news, music, and entertainment poured from the only source of broadcast content in existence — NBC, ABC, and CBS were all on AM before they were on TV. Amplitude modulation operated at the very core of American culture.
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"The Origin of Species" manuscript defaced by Darwin's own children?
While Darwin was writing his masterpiece, his children were doodling all over it.
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As American as Peanut Butter
The Great Depression turned the regular, ol’ PB&J into a staple of childhood, and the sandwich stuck.
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Nazis 'researched war mosquitoes'
German scientists at Dachau concentration camp researched the possible use of malaria-infected mosquitoes as weapons during World War Two, a researcher has claimed.
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A Cursed Land: Droughts. Bandits. Locusts. Inside the Boom and Bust of a Madagascar Frontier Town.
ILAKAKA, Madagascar—Southern Madagascar is a land awash in superstition—of witches and reincarnation and haunted bridges where children leap out of the darkness to send cars careening into the abyss. As our driver pulls over for the night in the roadside town of Ambalavao en route south to Ilakaka, a once-booming sapphire town, I notice my French-Malagasy photographer Rija’s face turn ashen.
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Pepsi to Reintroduce Limited Edition Crystal Pepsi in Early 2014
PepsiCo announced on Monday that its failed clear cola, known as Crystal Pepsi, would be making a comeback in early 2014 as a limited edition re-release. The soda was an early 90s flop, making now the perfect time to bring it back from the dead Crystal Pepsi was originally marketed as a caffeine-free “clear alternative” to normal brown colas, casting the drink’s clear color as healthy and pure. The drink’s original marketing slogan: “You’ve never seen a taste like this”.
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Fifty-two months of hell, from WWI outbreak to Armistice
World War I’s deadliest and most decisive battles were fought in Europe, on the Western Front slashed through the muddy fields of northern France. It was there, on a more than 700-kilometre (435-mile) line linking the North Sea to the Vosges mountains, that the war’s greatest offensives took place, with staggering loss of life.
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How the American media misrepresent Putin, Sochi and Ukraine.
The degradation of mainstream American press coverage of Russia, a country still vital to US national security, has been under way for many years. If the recent tsunami of shamefully unprofessional and politically inflammatory articles in leading newspapers and magazines—particularly about the Sochi Olympics, Ukraine and, unfailingly, President Vladimir Putin—is an indication, this media malpractice is now pervasive and the new norm.
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The Jaw-Droppingly Sketchy Past of America's Newest Billionaire
The craziest story about the circus you'll ever hear has almost nothing to do with the circus at all.
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The First Dunk in Basketball
A century before Saturday’s Slam Dunk Contest, someone literally “changed the game.”
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The Anatomy of a Magazine Cover
The best design podcast around—and one of the best podcasts, period—is Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible. On it he covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history of slot machines to the great Los Angeles Red Car conspiracy. Here at The Eye, we cross-post his new episodes and host excerpts from the 99% Invisible blog, which offers complementary visuals for each episode.
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9 Historic Olympic Cities And What They Look Like Today
Some venues were repurposed and used for years after the games; others were abandoned and fell to disrepair.
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