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The Transcript From The Apollo 13 Disaster Will Give You Chills
Exactly 43 years ago, on April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 blasted off from Cape Canaveral. Destination: the moon. But about 56 hours into the mission something went terribly wrong. "Okay, Houston, we've had...
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A Bullish Magazine Cover Is The Silliest Reason To Sell Stocks
Barron's is doubling down (quadrupling down, really) on its bullish Dow call with a cover story this week that screams, "Dow 16,000!"There remains widespread belief that as soon as a bullish Dow call...
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Take A Tour Through The New York Stock Exchange's 221-Year-Old Archives The...
The storied New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan's Financial District is rich with history. That history has been kept alive, in part, because the organization has kept thorough archives since 1792.How...
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A Personal Collection Of Apple Gadgets Evolved Into This Incredible Pop-Up...
The Apple Pop-Up Museum is a small museum in Atlanta that's on a limited run of exhibitions.The museum chronicles one of the world's most beloved companies from its humble beginnings in the Homebrew...
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Washington Is Still Pushing The Patriotic Alternative To 'Socialist' May Day
President Obama has issued a proclamation to commemorate Law Day, a holiday that was originally established to undermine workers' rights protests on May 1.Today, when workers around the world are...
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Jamestown Cannibals: Evidence Suggests Settlers ATE Children During Harsh...
New skeletal evidence from Jamestown — the oldest permanent English settlement in the Americas — indicates that during tough times, the inhabitants started eating each other.The bones showed that a...
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A Fabled Lost City Might Be Hiding Under This Remote Honduras Jungle
New pictures claim to show the possible architectural remains of Ciudad Blanca, a mythical "White City" rumored to be buried somewhere deep in the forests of eastern Honduras.The 3-D maps are a...
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Take A Tour Of Taiwan Before Its Economy Went Boom
Today, we all know Taiwan as a Pacific powerhouse that provides the world with everything from PCs to basic metals to cameras.But for decades after World War II, the country remained something of a...
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Expedition Team Explains How They'll Find Out If This Really Is Amelia...
A team of researchers investigating the mystery of aviator Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance believe they may have spotted a piece of wreckage from her plane just beyond the shore of a remote Pacific...
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Professor Claims To Have Discovered The World's Oldest Torah Scroll In Italy
A Torah scroll dating from as early as the 12th century was found tucked away in the University of Bologna's library after sitting mislabeled for over 120 years.Discovered by Hebrew Professor Mauro...
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Here's What 9,000-Year-Old Beers Taste Like
Ever wonder what the first beers tasted like?We got a chance to taste some re-created ancient brews at The Bell House thanks to the World Science Festival. The event "Cheers to science! A drinkable...
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A Simple Math Formula Is Basically Responsible For All Of Modern Civilization
As a species, we tend to remember inventions as the things that changed history. Fire, agriculture, architecture, the printing press, electricity, all of these led to immense leaps forward for...
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Sunday's Unexpected 'Game Of Thrones' Episode Is Based On Real Events
If you tuned into "Game of Thrones"killer episode Sunday, you were most likely floored.What you may not know, is that the graphic episode (read up on the spoilers here) was based on historical...
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The Founding Of The NSA Is An Awesome Story That Should Make Every American...
The NSA is having a pretty rough week.It recently came out that the organization was overseeing a program that tracked Americans' electronic lives without warrant in a major national controversy....
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High Heels Were Popular With Men Long Before Women Wore Them
Today I found out men wore high heel shoes long before women.The first high heel wearers are believed to have been Persian horseback warriors sometime around the ninth century.The extended heel was...
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12 American Bars To Drink At Before You Die
Most people have a favorite watering hole, but how many can say they've gotten drunk at the most famous bars in America?Derek Hembree and Clint Lanier are college buddies who decided to travel around...
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11 Glorious Maps Found From All Over The Web
Here's another set of recent maps mined by our pseudonymous friend Maps on the Web.We've runa couple of these previously, because if you don't know by now, we love maps.As in the prior versions, this...
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An Ohio Brewery Is Recreating A 5,000-Year-Old Beer Using Only Clay Pots
The Great Lakes Brewing Company is trying to recreate a 5,000-year-old Sumerian brew using only clay pots and wood spoons. They are working with researchers at the University of Chicago, according to...
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'Lost' Medieval City Discovered Beneath A Cambodian Jungle
A lost city known only from inscriptions that existed some 1,200 years ago near Angkor in what is now Cambodia has been uncovered using airborne laser scanning.The previously undocumented cityscape,...
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Happy 231st Birthday To The Great Seal Of The United States
Charles Thomson might not be our most famous founding father but he sure can pack a lot of meaning into a small area. Thomson, who served as secretary of the Continental Congress, designed the Great...
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