1. Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost (idlewords.com)
recommended by 3 users | 2010 | 244 points by mark_h | original thread |
2. Why no Roman industrial revolution? (acoup.blog)
recommended by 3 users | 2022 | 509 points by Tomte | original thread |
3. The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public (longreads.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2018 | 479 points by cmurf | original thread |
4. Was there a civilization on Earth before humans? (theatlantic.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2018 | 366 points by limbicsystem | original thread |
5. The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (otherhand.org)
recommended by 2 users | 2016 | 179 points by swatkat | original thread |
6. A Journey to the Disappointment Islands (bbc.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 120 points by tin7in | original thread |
7. “It just so happens that over the last 2 winters I've been burning a scrapped wooden boat in my fire stove” (comment)
recommended by 2 users | 2015 | mixmax on: When slaves and free men were shipwrecked together | original thread |
8. An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) (web.archive.org)
recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 347 points by sndean | original thread |
9. Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (en.wikipedia.org)
recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 135 points by spectramax | original thread |
10. They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955) (press.uchicago.edu)
recommended by 1 user | 2025 | 557 points by thunderbong | original thread |
11. Tiananmen Square 1989 death toll was at least 10,000 according to UK documents (bbc.co.uk)
recommended by 1 user | 2017 | 362 points by ComputerGuru | original thread |
12. Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii (reuters.com)
recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 344 points by pseudolus | original thread |
13. War Is a Racket (1933) (wanttoknow.info)
recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 336 points by rahuldottech | original thread |
14. Qanat (en.wikipedia.org)
recommended by 1 user | 2016 | 186 points by baghali | original thread |
15. James Burke: Connections, Episodes 1-10 (1978) [video] (archive.org)
recommended by 1 user | 2016 | 159 points by rfreytag | original thread |
16. Sanskrit As A Language Of Science (kgfindia.com)
recommended by 1 user | 2012 | 72 points by crazyphoton | original thread |
17. “Russian engineer got fed up of having all responsibility and low salary, so he moves to another city” (comment)
recommended by 1 user | 2017 | zokat on: CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf] | original thread |