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The Origin of Spray Paint paint
advertising
The History of Avant-Garde Cinema in America film
A Study of Luck in Business business
The Cardboard Beginnings of the Credit Card credit cards
Before Hitler, Who was the Stand-In for Pure Evil?
The Pentagon's Secret Program to Use...Cats
Photos of 19th Century Vaudeville Performers photography
Ten Mistresses in History commies
Roald Dahl's 1961 Sci-Fi TV Series 'Way Out' television
The History of the Codpiece fashion
15 Never-Too-Popular Obsolete Entertainment Forms entertainment
The Poison Squad: They Used to Test Our Food food
Stalin, Cannibalism, and the Nature of Evil books
48 Ads that Would Never Be Made Today advertising
The Most Unintentionally Disturbing Christmas Ads advertising
Five Myths about Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan
A Short History of Mug Shots photography
Malarial Mosquitoes Guided the Revolutionary War The US
13 Myth-Busting Facts on US History The US
The Other Social Network Facebook
200th Birthday for the Map that Made New York maps, NYC
The Twisted History of the Polka Dot fashion
America's Most Notorious Pimps and Madams prostitution
Malcolm X Trove Found During Feud discoveries
Original Models: A Look at Iconic Tech Prototypes inventions
A History of Broadway Flops theatre
WikiLeaks Reveals Tale of Nazi Treasure Nazis WikiLeaks
The Case of the First Mystery Novelist mysteries
The Deadliest Book Review books
Girl Bands and their Male Svengalis, a History music
governmentDrawing the Lesson of History...Poster-Style education
Amadeus Meets The Da Vinci Code: Tycho Brahe astronomy
Time Vs. The New Yorker magazines
Newton, the Alchemist [Isaac Newton]
The History and Use of 'Spoiler Alert' [film]
After Superman, They Made the First Jewish Superhero [comics, Superman]
The History of Canned Laughter [entertainment]
The Birth of the Joker [Batman, comics]
The 110 Year History of 3D in Movies [3D]
The Very Long History of Emoticons [emoticons]
The Bomb Chroniclers [the atomic bomb]
The Man Who Defined Singapore [Singapore]
Citizen Spies: The Committee of Fourteen [New York City]
The History of Junk Food [food]
In Colonial America, London was the Hot Vacation Spot [The United States]
How Prohibitions and Speakeasies Created NYC Nightlife [Prohibition, NYC]
Jefferson First Wrote Subjects, Not Citizens [Thomas Jefferson]
The True Story of American Soccer [soccer]
Infographic: The Worst Oil Spills in History the Gulf Oil Spill
Infographic: A History of Hacking [infographics, hacking]
Transylvania and Other U.S. States that Might Have Been [The U.S.]
The iPad is Jobs Final Victory over Wozniak [Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak]
China's Ancient Jewish Enclave [China, Jewish people]
Reagan Wanted to Make a Huge Super Collider [Ronald Reagan]
Recalling a Jewish Craze for a Chinese Game of Chance [mah-jongg]
How the Men Reacted on the Titanic Vs. the Lusitania [psychology]
A Brief History of Cigarette
Advertising
How Einstein Divided America’s Jews [Albert Einstein, Jewish people]
When Nixon Met Elvis [Nixon, Elvis]
Timeline: The Evolution of the Book [books]
For FDR Sleuths, New Focus on an Odd Spot [FDR]
Found: Photos of Annie Moore, Ellis Island's First Immigrant [NYC, Annie Moore]
Tracing Japan's Agression in WWII to the Other Roosevelt [Japan, WW2]
In Search of Eva Tanguay, the First Mass-Media Star [Eva Tanguay]
The History of Cereal [cereal]
In 1918 Pandemic, Another Possible Killer: Aspirin [health, aspirin, epidemics]
Pirates were . . . Democractic, Fair, and Racially Tolerant? [pirates]
A Short History of Movie Theater Concession Stands [movie theaters]
John Colman: NYC's 1st Recorded Murder Victim (1609) [John Colman, New York City, murder, crime]
The Strange Deaths of Homer and Langley Collyer [mysteries, crime, Homer Collyer, Langley Collyer]
Unrealized Plans: An Amusement Park Devoted to Freud [Sigmund Freud, amusement parks]
Letter from Ronald Reagan to Michael Jackson, 1984 [Ronald Reagan, Michael Jackson, presidents, celebrities]
Coney Island Beat Censors by Wearing Cap and Gown [Coney Island, New York City]
35,000 Year-Old Statuette with Huge Breasts Unearthed [archaeology, art, statues, breasts]
Fear of a Swine Flu Epidemic in 1976 Offers Lessons [swine flu, disease]
A Battle to Preserve Tesla's Wardenclyffe [Tesla, Wardenclyffe]
180 Hidden Miles of Great Wall Found [China, the Great Wall]
FDR as Bungler, Not Savior [FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, recessions]
Classic Gags Discovered in Roman Joke Book [the ancient world, the Romans, humor]
How the Atari 2600 Forged the Home Video Game Future [Atari, video games]
Portrait of Shakespeare Only One Painted in His Lifetime [Shakespeare, art, paintings]
Lincoln as Bisexual [Lincoln, bisexuality]
Alcohol in the White House, from Washington to Obama [alcohol, the White House, Washington, Obama]
How the Village Voice Changed Journalism [journalism, the Village Voice]
Gaza: The Basics [Israel, Palestine, the Middle East]
The Quiz Show Scandals: Charles Van Doren Speaks \ [Charles Van Doren, Quiz Show Scandals]
Claim: Josef Mengele Set Free in 1960 [Josef Mengele, the Holocaust, Nazis, World War 2]
Stonehenge Used as Cemetery From the Beginning [Stonehenge, England, the ancient world]
In
Weak Rivets, a Possible Key
to Titanic’s Doom
[the
Titanic,
ships]
Chess Book May Have Leonardo
Illustrations (or Not)
[Da
Vinci,
art]
Report Details Catholic Role
in Nazi Abuses
[Catholicism,
Nazis,
World
War 2]
Candy Bar History
[candy
bars,
chocolate]
A History of the Buttocks [the anatomy, the buttocks]
The World's Greatest Swindler [fraud, crime, Ivar Kreuger]
The Rise and Fall of the Pier [piers, trends]
A New Fight Over the Declaration of Independence [the Declaration of Independence]
The Antikythera Mechanism [antikythera mechanism, the ancient world, the Greeks]
Recordings in Hitler HQ Featured Jewish Artists [Hitler, World War 2, Jewish people, artists]
Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre? [Brigham Young, Mormons, massacres]
Hermann Goering's Raccoons [Hermann Goering, raccoons, Nazis, World War 2, animals]
Surveillance Society
[civil
rights,
groups]
The Myth of Lewis and Clark
[Lewis
and Clark,
exploration]
Lincoln as Earliest Recorded Case of Disease? [Lincoln, mental disorders, depression, questions]
