Tag: history
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The forgotten genocide » Throughout this month, the global community unites to remember the systematic slaughter of six million Jews and an estimated 11 million other victims under the Nazi… more ›
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What objects make up your experience of black history in America? historicallyblack: We’re collecting experiences of lived black history. Objects hold history. They’re evocative of stories stamped in time. When… more ›
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Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100 – The New Yorker “It would be cheesy to compare him to Einstein,” James Gleick, the author of “The Information,”… more ›
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Sundar’s Google » What does the man who runs Google’s most important products want? Start Here Table of contents more ›
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Book review: ‘The Innovators,’ on the digital revolution, by Walter Isaacson In the Industrial Revolution’s wake, aspiring entrepreneurs combed through a landmark biography of inventors for the secrets to success.… more ›
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art-of-swords: Cinquedea Short Sword Dated: first quarter of the 16th Century Place of Origin: North Italy Measurements: overall length 54.4 cm The cinquedea has a short, triangular, double-edged blade, with four… more ›
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“So what’s the lesson you take away from that? History’s gonna be harder to make than I thought.” – Kanye West http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201408/kanye-west?currentPage=3 more ›
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“When referring to their own times, they spoke of them as being “modern”” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval more ›