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Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost (idlewords.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2010 | 244 points by mark_h | original thread | |
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Why no Roman industrial revolution? (acoup.blog) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2022 | 509 points by Tomte | original thread | |
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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 | |
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Was there a civilization on Earth before humans? (theatlantic.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2018 | 366 points by limbicsystem | original thread | |
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The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (otherhand.org) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2016 | 179 points by swatkat | original thread | |
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A Journey to the Disappointment Islands (bbc.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 120 points by tin7in | original thread | |
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“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 | |
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An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) (web.archive.org) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 347 points by sndean | original thread | |
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Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (en.wikipedia.org) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 135 points by spectramax | original thread | |
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955) (press.uchicago.edu) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2025 | 557 points by thunderbong | original thread | |
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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 | |
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Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii (reuters.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 344 points by pseudolus | original thread | |
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War Is a Racket (1933) (wanttoknow.info) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 336 points by rahuldottech | original thread | |
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Qanat (en.wikipedia.org) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2016 | 186 points by baghali | original thread | |
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James Burke: Connections, Episodes 1-10 (1978) [video] (archive.org) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2016 | 159 points by rfreytag | original thread | |
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Sanskrit As A Language Of Science (kgfindia.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2012 | 72 points by crazyphoton | original thread | |
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“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 | |
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