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A succession crisis that tore England apart (2023)
• www.historytoday.com
Oldest evidence of habitual drug use traced back 25,000 years to Indonesia
• www.livescience.com
Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
• twitter.com
Mistakes, mistrust and misdirection: 25 years after 9/11, its legacy unfolds
• www.theguardian.com
Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization
• www.science.org
Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (19th Century)
• publicdomainreview.org
The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London
• www.ianvisits.co.uk
25 years ago, two strangers met in the twin towers and escaped on 9/11
• www.theguardian.com
JRR Tolkien's Letter to the Nazis
• twitter.com
OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices
• miod.online.fr
Much Ado About Adenoids
• www.damninteresting.com
Welcome to the Porcelain Insulator Collector's World of Mud
• www.insulators.info
Stanisław Lem foretold the current LLM mania in 1964
• nibblestew.blogspot.com
Metadata requests no longer tracked in PyPI download counts
• blog.pypi.org
Apple used to be weirder and maybe more fun
• scottknaster.substack.com
Should We Have Kept the American Empire?
• www.maximum-progress.com
She Popularized Economics. Then She Was Erased from History. Why?
• www.nytimes.com
Bhartrhari's Paradox
• www.futilitycloset.com
How would you know whether an ancient culture had zero?
• www.johndcook.com
150 Years of Global Stock Returns – The Birthplace Lottery
• beyondpassive.substack.com
Man gripping his phallus is oldest known narrative scene
• www.thehistoryblog.com
Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers
• www.theguardian.com
Volcanoes that made history
• knowablemagazine.org
Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up, What Whimsical WWII Soldier Who Wrote Them?
• www.smithsonianmag.com
Hell has more than 7 circles you guys (2022)
• colinmorris.github.io
The lost airports of SimCity 3000 (2002)
• web.archive.org
Living at the Hinge of History
• henryaj.substack.com