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Amanda Myers
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[2025] 200+ Free Courses to Learn About History — Class Central
From ancient to modern: a comprehensive guide to history courses, spanning continents, cultures, and eras.
www.classcentral.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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AWS outage has taken down millions of websites, including Amazon.com, PrimeVideo, Perplexity AI, Canva and more.
AWS outage crashes Amazon, PrimeVideo, Fortnite, Perplexity and more
AWS outage has taken down millions of websites, including Amazon.com, PrimeVideo, Perplexity AI, Canva and more.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Shaka Smart has Marquette basketball players learn history from Doc Rivers, Travis Diener
Marquette head coach Shaka Smart knows the importance of history, so he set up a walking tour of MU hoops with two well-known guest lecturers.
www.jsonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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A Dining Experience to Remember: A Brief History of the Automat - History Associates Incorporated
By Colleen Kim, Historian
www.historyassociates.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Before There Was Streaming, the Victorians Had "Magic Lanterns"
New research finds these early image projectors, which brought world landmarks, fairytale favorites to life, were a regular part of middle-class life
www.smithsonianmag.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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The ancient book of wisdom at the heart of every computer
Damien Walter: The I-Ching predates binary code by as much as 5,000 years, and gives us reason to question our faith in digital technology
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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The Vacuum Cleaner Was Harder to Invent Than You Might Think
The original vacuum cleaner required a number of improvements before becoming the household staple it is today
www.smithsonianmag.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Pneumatic Clocks of Paris: Air Powered Time
The Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio was considered technologically advanced in the United States for its time in 1933. In the train station control tower was housed a series of pneumatic levers (pi...
cincinnatiwatch.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Medieval Exchequer Tally Sticks | Science Museum Group Collection
Sixteen exchequer tallies (stocks only)
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk
August 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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The Early History of Counting | Keith Houston
How ancient peoples learned to keep a tally.
www.laphamsquarterly.org
August 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Before Julia Child, There Was Fu Pei-mei
www.neh.gov
August 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Culinary Detectives Try to Recover the Formula for a Deliciously Fishy Roman Condiment
From Pompeii to modern laboratories, scholars are working to recreate garum, a sauce made from decaying fish that delighted ancient Rome
www.smithsonianmag.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Sinners Inspired By Metallica Song - ALT 105.1
Ryan Coogler's horror film 'Sinners' drew inspiration from Metallica's song 'One'.
www.alt1051.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Wasabi does more than simply add heat to sushi
Wasabi has antimicrobial properties which may have safeguarded Japanese sushi eaters over the years. Specifically, “6-methylsulfinylhexyl isothiocyanate” has been identified in wasabi as an anti-micro...
www.mcgill.ca
August 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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The Ancient Egyptians Had Iron Because They Harvested Fallen Meteors
Modern chemical analysis confirms that ancient Egyptians used iron from meteorites
www.smithsonianmag.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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The Citrus Family Tree
All the oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruits you’ve ever eaten are descendants from just a few ancient species.
www.nationalgeographic.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Eisai, Tea Seeds and the Oldest Zen Temple in Kyoto - Global Japanese Tea Association
Tea was introduced to Japan from China in the 9th century by two Buddhist monks, Kūkai and Saichō. However, it wasn’t until […]
gjtea.org
July 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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I've been hearing about & seen still photos of the recently rediscovered Chinese typewriter created by Lin Yutang, so cool to see this video report by @emilyzfeng.bsky.social featuring @tsmullaney.bsky.social (who, literally, wrote the book on the Chinese Typewriter) www.youtube.com/shorts/oaIlb...
This is the only prototype of the MingKwai typewriter
YouTube video by NPR
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June 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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A Call for Historically Informed Decisions (opinion)
Data-informed decision-making in higher ed should not just be about quantitative data, Lucian Bessmer writes.
www.insidehighered.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Yellow fever epidemic changes course of Memphis history in...
In the late summer of 1878, a killing machine marched up the Mississippi River from New Orleans headed straight for Memphis, Tennessee.
www.ajc.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Sauerkraut: It All Began in China (Published 1979)
www.nytimes.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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If Japan Can, Why Cant We? - 1980 NBC Special Report - The W. Edwards Deming Institute
By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. It is very hard for us today to remember (or learn if we are too young) what the situation was like in 1980 (see the botto...
deming.org
June 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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May 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Pax Kushana: Uncovering the Forgotten Kushan Empire
Nestled at the very core of ancient Central Asian history lies the enigmatic Kushan Empire, a once-powerful civilization that flourished during the critical centuries of the Common Era.
www.ancient-origins.net
May 7, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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MA in American History opens to community college instructors, adds MA+15/30
A highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
www.gettysburg.edu
May 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM