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Here's How Apple's Products Have Evolved Over The Years (AAPL)
Apple is known for its incredible product design, led by Jony Ive.But Apple's hardware has come a long way to the sleek minimalism it's known for today.Apple products used to be bulky, boxy devices...
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This Incredible Letter Home From An American Soldier During The War Of 1812...
John Hollyday served in the War of 1812, where the British invaded the fledgling United States and almost reconquered the territory they had lost only three decades before.In a touching letter to his...
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16 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes That Will Make You Want To Change The World
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India, in 1869.He was assassinated in 1948. Though in school he was rated as only"good at English, fair in Arithmetic and weak in Geography," he would...
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Here's Where The 5-Day Workweek Came From
“Seven days,” wrote Witold Rybczynski in the August 1991 issue of The Atlantic, “is not natural because no natural phenomenon occurs every seven days.” The year marks one revolution of the Earth around...
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Scientists Who Discovered Ebola Almost Caused A Disaster: 'It Makes Me Wince...
When Ebola first arrived in Europe on Sept. 29, 1976, the vials of the virus were carried from Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in a shiny blue thermos on a passenger flight.Three lab...
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Istanbul Will Demolish New Skyscrapers That Ruin Its Historic Skyline
The Turkish government has officially ordered the demolition of new skyscrapers in Istanbul because they marred the city's historic skyline, according to Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman (via...
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3,000-Year-Old Golden Bowl Has A Gruesome History
In 1958, archaeologists were digging through the ruins of a burned Iron Age citadel called Hasanlu in northwestern Iran when they pulled a spectacular, albeit crushed, golden bowl from the layers of...
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Peter Thiel Explains Why PayPal Paid Customers To Sign Up In The Early Days
Back in the dreamy pre-cash days of 1999, PayPal was still mainly a product that let you send money from one PalmPilot to another — an idea so heinous that it earned a "top ten worst business idea of...
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17 Bizarre Jobs Our Ancestors Did That No Longer Exist
We could all be dinosaurs. The Economist predicts that robots are going to replace telemarketers, accountants, and retail workers, and Bill Gates says software bots will take even more jobs.This isn't...
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15 Iconic Photographs Recreated With John Malkovich As The Model
When actor John Malkovich takes on a role, he really goes for it.So, when longtime friend and collaborator, photographer Sandro Miller, who goes by his first name, decided he wanted to recreate his...
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Incredible Images Of Wall Street Trading Before The Bloomberg Terminal
Today's traders are spoiled by their online discount brokerage accounts and their Bloomberg terminals.Before broadband fired live quotes and analysis at the speed of light to our smartphones, people...
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Bill Gates Wants To Change How We Teach History In High Schools
Bill Gates wants to change how students learn history.As a recent feature in The New York Times Magazine details, the Microsoft founder and current richest man in the world went on a mission to change...
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6 Mind-Blowing Tactical Tricks That Turned The Tide Of War
Technology and manpower never guarantee a military victory by themselves. And neither can tactics and strategy — sometimes, it takes an extra measure of trickery and subterfuge to swing the tide on the...
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See What Hong Kong Looked Like 42 Years Ago
With all the interest surrounding Hong Kong in the past few days as pro-democracy protests continue to erupt, it's easy to forget how much change the city has seen in the past 50 years. Hong Kong has...
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New Fossil Tells The History Of An Epic Ancient Predator Battle
A buried tooth has rewritten our thinking about how the apex predators of the Triassic interacted. Modern clashes between crocodiles and lions have nothing on what occurred where land met sea more than...
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Vintage Photos Show The Terrifying First Expeditions Into The Congo To Track...
The first known Ebola outbreak devastated a small village called Yambuku and the surrounding area in the north of the Congo in 1976.When it started to kill patients in a missionary hospital, a Flemish...
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In 1945, The Pentagon Estimated That 204 Atomic Bombs Could Destroy The...
"My God, what have we done," Enola Gay copilot Robert Lewis reportedly said as the Superfortress was making its way back to base on August 6, 1945, after dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of...
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13 Southern Sayings That The Rest Of America Won't Understand
Language discrepancies naturally arise in different geographic regions, like the raging “pop” vs. “soda” debate.But the South undoubtedly takes the cake.Conversations south of the Mason-Dixon line will...
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5 Of The 10 Deadliest Wars Began In China
The horrors of war have affected nearly every part of the globe throughout history, but China has seen more than its share of bloody combat. Of the 10 most damaging wars in history based on combatant...
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45 Gorgeous Vintage Photos Of Macau From Before It Became A Gambling Mecca
Macau is the world's gambling Mecca — a place that exploded from nothing at the end of the 1990s, to averaging 19% growth for the last decade. That is nothing short of wild success.But now it seems the...
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