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This Map Shows What The World Of Oil Looked Like In 1940
Reddit user sverdrupian has posted an amazing, 73-year-old map showing what the world looked like from the view of Standard Oil.By 1940, the Standard Oil trust created by John D. Rockefeller had been...
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Incredible Photos From When New York's Hip Meatpacking District Was A Creepy...
The Meatpacking District hasn't always been the hot nightlife destination it is today. Before hip designers like Diane von Furstenberg and Alexander McQueen opened flagship stores there in the late...
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The 100 Most Important People In History
It was only a matter of time before the tech world tried to rewrite history.Stony Brook University computer science professor Steven Skiena and Google software engineer Charles B. Ward take on this...
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The 15 Most YOLO Moments In Federal Reserve History
Monday will mark the centennial of the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, which created what is now the most important economic institution in the world. To mark the occasion, we've compiled the 15...
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Here's The First Crossword Puzzle That Ran 100 Years Ago Today
The first-ever crossword puzzle ran in the New York World newspaper on December 21, 1913.One hundred years later, the puzzles are still extremely popular and run in newspapers across the country. The...
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How The First Crossword Puzzle Was Created 100 Years Ago
Navigate to the Google homepage today, and instead of the traditional multi-colored logo, you'll find an interactive crossword with a range of clues, from "It's always worn backwards" to "One way to...
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This Record-Breaking Time Capsule Room Won't Be Opened Until Year 8113
A swimming-pool-sized room in Atlanta, Ga. hasn't seen the light of day since 1940, and it won't for another 6,1oo years. To provide more evidence for future generations than we have about the past,...
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The Supreme Court Says The Tomato Is A Vegetable — Not A Fruit
Though technically fruit, tomatoes fall under the category of "vegetable," according to the Supreme Court. The high court issued this 1893 tomato ruling in a case brought by members of the Nix family...
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These Photos Show The Last Days Of Old, Sleazy Times Square
New York's 42nd Street has transformed in recent decades from a den of drugs and sex shops to a flashy tourist hub filled with chain stores. People have mixed opinions about whether this was...
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Here's What All 50 State Names Actually Mean
If you want to understand a state's history, start by looking at its name.The map below shows the breakdown of all the states' etymologies. The most names, eight in both cases, stem from Algonquin and...
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How The 'Piranha Of Portugal' Became The Greatest Currency Counterfeiter Of...
The new US $100 bill is out, as you may have seen this holiday season. Our dear old Uncle Ben is a technological wonder with a dozen different anti-counterfeiting devices on it. Since there are more...
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Incredible Side-By-Side Video Footage Shows London 86 Years Ago And Today
During the 1920s, cinematographer and inventor Claude Friese-Greene traveled across the U.K., capturing stunning footage of life in London in 1927.He used his own process to create colored film, which...
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New Theory Suggests Alexander The Great Was Poisoned
On June 11, 323 B.C., the famed Alexander the Great died, felled by a mysterious illness that left him too weak to move.Ever since, the cause of the Macedonian leader's death has been debated. Did he...
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Benjamin Franklin Thought Everyone Should Possess These 13 Virtues
In "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," we find a list of thirteen virtues “all that at that time occurr’d to me as necessary or desirable.”These names of virtues, with their precepts, were:1....
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The Entire 'Popeye' Franchise Is Based On Bad Science
On January 17, 1929, exactly 85 years ago, our favorite sailor man, Popeye, made his debut in Thimble Theatre, a comic strip created by E.C. Segar. Along with the cartoon's distinctive speech and...
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Here's The Real Story Behind Martin Luther King Jr.'s Greatest Moment
"I have a dream ... "— we all know the words.But Martin Luther King Jr.'s crowning moment may never have happened without one of the largest protests ever — the March on Washington on August 28,...
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50 Reasons We're Living Through The Greatest Period In The History Of The World
I recently talked to a doctor who retired after a 30-year career. I asked him how much medicine had changed during the three decades he practiced. "Oh, tremendously," he said. He listed off a dozen...
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video The U.S. $1 bill hasn't had a major redesign since 1929. Mark Anderson, a numismatic consultant for The Museum of American Finance, tells us about the...
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6 People Who Were Literally Erased From History
After news of the execution of Jang Song-thaek, Kim Jong-un's uncle and close advisor, broke in December, North Korean state media has been erasing the man from history entirely, deleting him from...
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