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  • 2025-03-24   Opinion | He Cut a Secret Deal That Cemented U.S. Economi...   (www.politico.com)
  • 2025-03-14   Excalibur: The Legendary Sword of King Arthur   (www.thecollector.com)
  • 2025-03-13   Steam networks - Works in Progress   (worksinprogress.co)
  • 2025-02-17   The Uneasy Origins of Caste   (open.substack.com)
  • 2025-02-17   WWII Bombers: The Aircraft That Shaped the War   (www.thecollector.com)
  • 2025-02-11   The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained...   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2025-02-08   When Louis Armstrong Conquered Chicago   (www.honest-broker.com)
  • 2025-02-07   My Quest to Find the Owner of a Mysterious WWII Japanese ...   (www.outsideonline.com)
  • 2025-01-30   Signs Of Life In A Desert Of Death | NOEMA   (www.noemamag.com)
  • 2025-01-29   Jump, Jive and Fail: The ’90s Swing Craze   (slate.com)
  • 2025-01-22   The Harpies: Beasts of Vengeance in Greek Mythology   (www.thecollector.com)
  • 2025-01-21   A Spy Satellite You’ve Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold...   (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 2025-01-21   Song Hunter: The Life of Alan Lomax   (www.thecollector.com)
  • 2025-01-19   The Derelict • Damn Interesting   (www.damninteresting.com)
  • 2025-01-19   How Jukeboxes Made Memphis Music   (oxfordamerican.org)
  • 2025-01-06   The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Ti...   (www.openculture.com)
  • 2024-12-15   How to Stage a Coup   (www.statecraft.pub)
  • 2024-12-12   The secret reason the USA beat the USSR to the Moon   (bigthink.com)
  • 2024-12-04   Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process   (www.theguardian.com)
  • 2024-12-04   The Smartphone of the Middle Ages   (nautil.us)
  • 2024-11-25   Can a stuffed bird solve a 150-year-old Arctic murder mys...   (www.thetimes.com)
  • 2024-11-24   Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ...   (hub.jhu.edu)
  • 2024-11-15   The Influence of Bell Labs   (open.substack.com)
  • 2024-11-08   An uncivil civil war   (woodfromeden.substack.com)
  • 2024-10-30   Meet the Italian 'Fruit Detective' Who Investigates Centu...   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2024-10-27   The Forgotten Pandemic   (www.asimov.press)
  • 2024-10-25   Iconic Bird of American Horror Stories Faces Its Own Terr...   (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 2024-10-17   The Rise and Fall of Matchbox's Toy-Car Empire - Hagerty ...   (www.hagerty.com)
  • 2024-07-13   Book Review: Refrigeration and the Many Virtues of the Co...   (undark.org)
  • 2024-06-29   Brutal birth   (insidestory.org.au)
  • 2024-06-16   “The Woman Who Came From the Sky” — Meet Valérie André, t...   (militaryhistorynow.com)
  • 2024-06-11   Records of Pompeii’s survivors have been found – and arch...   (theconversation.com)
  • 2024-06-07   For the First French Town Liberated on D-Day, History Is ...   (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2024-05-21   Why Leopold and Loeb Committed Cold-Blooded Murder in the...   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2024-05-16   A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history   (thebulletin.org)
  • 2024-05-05   The Country Bumpkins who gave us Parisian Café Culture   (www.messynessychic.com)
  • 2024-04-28   You Can Still Die From World War I Dangers in France's Re...   (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 2024-03-29   Searching for the Cause of a Catastrophic Plane Crash | T...   (www.newyorker.com)
  • 2024-03-06   The Ruthless Rise and Fall of Paramount Pictures During H...   (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
  • 2024-03-02   Alderney Is a Small Island With a Dark History   (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2024-02-29   Manhattan or Pulau Rhun? In 1667, Nutmeg Made the Choice ...   (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2024-02-29   In Ancient Bones, a Reminder that Northern Ireland’s Ghos...   (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2024-02-03   In Defense of the Rat   (hakaimagazine.com)
  • 2024-02-02   The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way’   (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 2024-02-01   Has Amelia Earhart’s plane really been found?   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2024-01-19   Ada Blackjack Kept Going After Everyone Else on Wrangel I...   (www.neatorama.com)
  • 2024-01-19   What Happened to the US Machine Tool Industry?   (open.substack.com)
  • 2024-01-13   The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives   (arstechnica.com)
  • 2023-10-16   How unearthing diseases' ancient origins could help produ...   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2023-09-29   The Race to Catch the Last Nazis | GQ   (www.gq.com)
  • 2023-09-24   Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World’s Oldest Co...   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2023-08-27   Roundtable   (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
  • 2023-08-11   The Pandemic Your Grandparents Forgot - Nautilus   (nautil.us)
  • 2023-08-06   Miscellanies   (www.historytoday.com)
  • 2023-08-05   The Elusive, Maddening Mystery of the Bell Witch - Atlas ...   (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 2023-08-01   With the help of new archaeological approaches, our pictu...   (aeon.co)
  • 2023-05-23   Demon Core: The Strange Death of Louis Slotin - The New Y...   (www.newyorker.com)
  • 2023-05-13   Baseball cap history and timeline   (www.mlb.com)
  • 2023-05-12   One Of Rome’s Most Devastating Military Defeats Was Maste...   (www.thedrive.com)
  • 2023-05-07   Why the concept of invisibility so captivates the imagina...   (psyche.co)
  • 2023-05-03   The Titanic of the Pacific - The Atavist Magazine   (magazine.atavist.com)
  • 2023-04-21   slide rules   (pdodds.w3.uvm.edu)
  • 2023-04-16   The stories of oral societies aren’t myths, they’re recor...   (aeon.co)
  • 2023-04-13   How America's Beloved Meyer Lemon Caused a Mid-Century Ci...   (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 2023-04-13   The Astounding Origins of Chaco Canyon Timber   (www.sapiens.org)
  • 2023-04-08   Retail and Shopping: Vintage Photos Show How People Shopp...   (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • 2023-04-08   50 Ways the World is Getting Better   (awealthofcommonsense.com)
  • 2023-04-02   What Really Happened After the Mutiny on the Bounty?   (www.todayifoundout.com)
  • 2023-03-27   Where Did Writing Come From?   (www.getty.edu)
  • 2023-03-19   Crime of the Centuries   (nymag.com)
  • 2023-03-19   Adam Shatz · Beyond Borders: Adolfo Kaminsky’s Forgeries   (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 2023-03-17   The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poe...   (theconversation.com)
  • 2023-03-13   Meet the Man Collecting Fading Place Names   (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 2023-03-11   Why don't humans have fur?   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2023-03-05   The Military Adventures of Alexander the Great: An Animat...   (www.openculture.com)
  • 2023-03-05   The Tunguska Mystery--100 Years Later   (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 2023-02-25   The Grammarphobia Blog: Why the ‘w’ is called a ‘double u’   (www.grammarphobia.com)
  • 2023-02-25   The blast furnace - 800 years of technology improvement   (constructionphysics.substack.com)
  • 2023-02-10   Why are flood myths so common in stories from ancient cul...   (bigthink.com)
  • 2023-02-05   Faxes From the Far Side • Damn Interesting   (www.damninteresting.com)
  • 2023-02-05   The National Interest: Blog   (nationalinterest.org)
  • 2023-01-26   Who Sets the Prices?   (tedium.co)
  • 2023-01-22   The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and...   (www.thediff.co)
  • 2022-12-16   The True Story of Lawrence of Arabia   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2022-11-22   Pakistan's lost city of 40,000 people   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2022-10-29   Inside the Great Pyramid | Giza Project   (giza.mused.org)
  • 2022-10-21   An Undiscovered Coronavirus? The Mystery of the ‘Russian ...   (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2022-10-16   The Richest Athlete of All Time Did Nothing With His Weal...   (getpocket.com)
  • 2022-09-29   No, the 'Epic of Gilgamesh' Is Not the Oldest Surviving W...   (talesoftimesforgotten.com)
  • 2022-09-17   The Real Warriors Behind 'The Woman King'   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2022-09-14   10 of the most legendary rulers from ancient history   (bigthink.com)
  • 2022-09-05   The Missing Chinese Machine Revolution   (erikexamines.substack.com)
  • 2022-09-05   How Ships and Forts Created Western Dominance   (medium.com)
  • 2022-09-05   What Happened to Anne Boleyn’s Heart?   (crimereads.com)
  • 2022-09-05   Was King Arthur a Real Person?   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2022-09-04   Why Was Western Printing Superior to Asian Printing?   (erikexamines.substack.com)
  • 2022-08-27   Five Lessons from History   (www.collaborativefund.com)
  • 2022-08-22   The messages that survived civilisation's collapse - BBC ...   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2022-08-22   She was a global superstar. She was a world-class spy.   (www.trulyadventure.us)
  • 2022-08-17   The mystery of the world's oldest toys   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2022-08-14   The Tip-Off From a Nazi That Saved My Grandparents   (getpocket.com)
  • 2022-08-13   The 1600s Were a Watershed for Swear Words   (www.historytoday.com)
  • 2022-08-09   When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said 'No Thanks'   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2022-08-05   From whistling arrows and trumpeting elephants to battle ...   (theconversation.com)
  • 2022-08-02   Have Scholars Finally Deciphered Linear Elamite, a Myster...   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2022-07-30   The Night That Grasshoppers Killed Texas League Baseball   (www.texasmonthly.com)
  • 2022-07-30   A collection of bad album covers that are both hilarious ...   (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • 2022-07-28   Overexposed: A History of Fotomat   (getpocket.com)
  • 2022-07-24   When Did Shaking Hands Become a Standard Way of Greeting ...   (getpocket.com)
  • 2022-07-23   A Traveling Jewish Deli Exhibit Tells an American Tale in...   (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2022-07-18   Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself   (arstechnica.com)
  • 2022-07-18   Everything We Know About Platforms We Learned from Mediev...   (hbr.org)
  • 2022-07-16   The American Amusement Park's Wild Ride   (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 2022-07-14   The Sanaa Palimpsest: A truly fascinating Quranic manuscript   (english.alaraby.co.uk)
  • 2022-07-11   A Glimpse Inside a Florentine Silk-Weaving Workshop   (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2022-07-11   Hacker News   (www.sixthtone.com)
  • 2022-07-10   Voynich Manuscript   (beinecke.library.yale.edu)
  • 2022-07-07   How Dardistan became one of the most multilingual places ...   (aeon.co)
  • 2022-07-05   The History of the Singular 'They'   (www.mentalfloss.com)
  • 2022-07-05   Hacker News   (www.cryptomuseum.com)
  • 2022-07-04   1980 Sears Spring Summer Catalog, Page 729 - Catalogs & W...   (christmas.musetechnical.com)
  • 2022-07-03   Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World's Oldest Co...   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2022-06-30   A Mystery That Took 13,200 Years to Crack   (clicks.getpocket.com)
  • 2022-06-28   Thirty-Six Stratagems   (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 2022-06-22   The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2022-06-21   Hong Kong’s Floating Restaurant Sinks at Sea, Laden With ...   (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2022-06-21   A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs   (500songs.com)
  • 2022-06-21   History of The Morton Salt Girl: Who Is She? (Umbrella An...   (historydaily.org)
  • 2022-06-19   How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive   (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 2022-06-18   Visiting Vladimir Putin’s Lost Russia   (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 2022-06-13   How Cup Noodles Became One of the Biggest Transpacific Bu...   (getpocket.com)
  • 2022-06-11   How a Saxophonist Tricked the KGB by Encrypting Secrets i...   (www.wired.com)
  • 2022-06-08   Why is English so weirdly different from other languages?...   (aeon.co)
  • 2022-06-03   List of mythological objects   (en.m.wikipedia.org)
  • 2022-05-30   So You Want to Be a Bootlegger | The Saturday Evening Post   (www.saturdayeveningpost.com)
  • 2022-05-18   Here’s How to Make Olive Oil Like an Ancient Egyptian   (www.sapiens.org)
  • 2022-05-12   ‘People took so many drugs, they forgot they played on it...   (www.theguardian.com)
  • 2022-05-10   The Untold Story of the White House’s Weirdly Hip Record ...   (www.washingtonian.com)
  • 2022-04-28   Handy Mnemonics: The Five-Fingered Memory Machine   (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 2022-04-10   The world's oldest dessert?   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2022-03-31   The Cult of Adam Tooze   (nymag.com)
  • 2022-03-18   The mountain stronghold that has kept Georgia’s medieval ...   (www.apollo-magazine.com)
  • 2022-03-17   How national identities are invented   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2022-03-14   How The Inca Used Knots To Tell Stories   (lithub.com)
  • 2022-03-14   Wonders and warnings from the ancient world | Daisy Dunn ...   (thecritic.co.uk)
  • 2022-03-10   Feeding the Bear: A Closer Look at Russian Army Logistics...   (warontherocks.com)
  • 2022-03-08   The Hidden Story of the North’s Victory in the Civil War   (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2022-02-20   A Quest to Return the Banjo to Its African Roots   (getpocket.com)
  • 2022-02-09   Heart of Mold   (tedium.co)
  • 2022-02-01   A very short introduction to the undeciphered Aegean writ...   (itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com)
  • 2022-01-25   Finding the world’s deepest shipwreck   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2022-01-23   Divine Comedy - Wikipedia   (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 2022-01-21   Dun, Dun Duuun! Where did pop culture’s most dramatic sou...   (www.theguardian.com)
  • 2022-01-21   What Lies Beneath   (www.vanityfair.com)
  • 2022-01-16   Book Summary: The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Du...   (jamesclear.com)
  • 2022-01-12   In Praise of Bad Taste   (www.bookforum.com)
  • 2022-01-12   The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps'   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2022-01-07   Still She Rises — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER   (bittersoutherner.com)
  • 2022-01-06   Ninety-Nine Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2021   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2021-12-27   Why Arabs Lose Wars :: Middle East Quarterly   (www.meforum.org)
  • 2021-12-26   The Lost Lingo of New York City’s Soda Jerks   (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 2021-12-12   The Story of Carolina Gold, the Best Rice You've Never Ta...   (www.seriouseats.com)
  • 2021-12-12   The Invention of Chinese | History Today   (www.historytoday.com)
  • 2021-12-11   The Story of Catherine the Great   (getpocket.com)
  • 2021-11-29   How an American in Paris won the rarest of French honors   (www.latimes.com)
  • 2021-11-23   The Tomb Raiders of the Upper East Side   (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 2021-11-22   How Fish and Chips Migrated to Great Britain   (getpocket.com)
  • 2021-11-04   "A Great Day In Harlem": Remembering the iconic 1958 phot...   (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 2021-11-03   How 12th-century Genoese merchants invented the idea of r...   (psyche.co)
  • 2021-10-15   The Daring Diplomat Who Proved One Person Can Thwart an E...   (getpocket.com)
  • 2021-09-19   When Nazis tried to trace Aryan race myth in Tibet   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2021-09-14   How Singer Won the Sewing Machine War   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2021-08-26   The Kingpin of Shanghai   (www.damninteresting.com)
  • 2021-08-19   Why Spanish colonial officials feared the power of clothi...   (psyche.co)
  • 2021-07-11   What Did Ancient Languages Sound Like?   (antigonejournal.com)
  • 2021-07-10   A Well-Woven Tale: The fabric of the modern world   (www.historytoday.com)
  • 2021-07-03   Minik and the Meteor   (narratively.com)
  • 2021-06-21   Africa’s ancient scripts counter European ideas of litera...   (aeon.co)
  • 2021-06-04   An Old Effort To Stop The Smallpox Virus Has Lessons For ...   (www.npr.org)
  • 2021-06-04   Meet the Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1,000 'Lost...   (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 2021-06-04   Ho Chi Bear and the Ravens   (getpocket.com)
  • 2021-05-12   The Most Honored Photograph | PetaPixel   (petapixel.com)
  • 2021-05-12   'He knew something': The Bay Area flight of Rangers that ...   (www.sfgate.com)
  • 2021-05-07   ‘I’d Never Been Involved in Anything as Secret as This’   (www.politico.com)
  • 2021-04-24   The girl in the Kent State photo and the lifelong burden ...   (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 2021-04-12   The Real Book - 99% Invisible   (99percentinvisible.org)
  • 2021-03-27   Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Ea...   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2021-03-27   Meeting the Darkhad, the soul guards of Genghis Khan - Su...   (supchina.com)
  • 2021-03-03   The 25 Greatest Art Heists of All Time   (www.artnews.com)
  • 2021-02-28   The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody: The Woman Who ...   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2021-02-13   Letter from Chihuahua - Cliff Dwellers of the Sierra Madr...   (www.archaeology.org)
  • 2021-02-09   The Original Karen   (www.thedriftmag.com)
  • 2021-02-09   A Massacre in a Forest Becomes a Test of Poland’s Pushbac...   (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2021-01-14   The 432-year-old manual on social distancing   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2020-12-29   Raiders of the lost steel   (www.chemistryworld.com)
  • 2019-12-23   Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the W...   (www.collaborativefund.com)
  • 2019-09-21   Wind Power: How the 19th-Century’s Greatest Shipbuilder O...   (www.collectorsweekly.com)
  • 2019-09-02   The Silk Road: the route for technological exchange that ...   (www.bbvaopenmind.com)
  • 2019-08-29   The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History’s Great ...   (lithub.com)
  • 2019-08-15   The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Mid...   (getpocket.com)
  • 2019-08-12   Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible. Then Ca...   (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2019-07-31   The secret seat of the Knights Templar   (www.bbc.com)
  • 2019-07-30   On Hitler’s Last Desperate Plan to Destroy Paris   (lithub.com)
  • 2019-07-20   Wolves of Karelia   (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 2019-07-18   Where the Bodies Are Buried   (longform.org)
  • 2019-06-30   https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-06-07/somerton-...   (stories.californiasunday.com)
  • 2019-05-12   During the Cold War, the CIA Secretly Plucked a Soviet Su...   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2019-03-16   How Turkish coffee destroyed an empire   (www.1843magazine.com)
  • 2019-02-10   The Nazi Interrogator Who Revealed the Value of Kindness   (psmag.com)
  • 2019-01-26   The Plot to Kill George Washington   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2018-12-21   Was History Fair to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Owner...   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2018-12-16   Tarrare: The Medical Marvel Who Could Eat Anything — And Did   (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • 2018-12-03   Ansel Adams’ pictures of Los Angeles recall an era of war...   (medium.californiasun.co)
  • 2018-11-17   The Lethal Lunch That Shook Scotland   (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 2018-11-16   Crossing the Sahara in the Fourteenth Century | François-...   (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
  • 2018-11-07   The Lessons Of Dien Bien Phu | Hoover Institution   (www.hoover.org)
  • 2018-10-08   Why big companies squander brilliant ideas   (timharford.com)
  • 2018-08-28   The Man Who Walked Backward   (www.texasmonthly.com)
  • 2018-08-24   When Local Roller Rinks Had Their Own Collectible Stickers   (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 2018-08-23   The Hobo Code: An Introduction to the Hieroglyphic Langua...   (www.openculture.com)
  • 2018-08-15   Into the Cave of Chile’s Witches   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2018-07-01   Inside the 20-year decline of Toys R Us   (www.retaildive.com)
  • 2018-07-01   The Counterfeit Queen of Soul | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2018-06-13   Optical Scanning Technology Lets Researchers Recover Lost...   (www.openculture.com)
  • 2018-06-03   A Brief History of America's Appetite for Macaroni and Ch...   (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2018-06-03   The Two-Napkin Protocol   (www.computerhistory.org)
  • 2018-04-30   A lost vision of West Virginia – Explore Parts Unknown   (explorepartsunknown.com)
  • 2018-03-08   A Digital Archive of Heavy Metal, the Influential “Adult ...   (www.openculture.com)
  • 2018-02-12   The Conqueror Who Longed for Melons - Gastro Obscura   (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 2018-01-21   Gavin Francis · The Untreatable: The Spanish Flu   (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 2017-11-24   Baseball, BBQ, and Dead Ponies—A History of Fat Men’s Clu...   (www.texasmonthly.com)
  • 2017-10-21   Brooklyn Academy of Music Puts Online 70,000 Objects Docu...   (www.openculture.com)
  • 2017-09-24   Did Frank Sinatra Really Perform at My Grandma's High Sch...   (www.cantgetmuchhigher.com)
  • 2014-10-24   The Puzzling History of China’s Most Controversial Flavoring   (www.sixthtone.com)
  • 2012-10-24   Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest   (www.ageofinvention.xyz)