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The Familiar Loneliness of the Kinetoscope (resobscura.substack.com)

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A Luminous, Brave, and Unputdownable Article about Blurbs (countercraft.substack.com)

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Gold-Digging Ant (wikipedia.org)

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RCA and the Roaring Twenties (globalfinancialdata.com)

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Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies (resobscura.substack.com)

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2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past (resobscura.substack.com)

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Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing slave trade (2024) (nature.com)

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Mummies' Ancient Tattoos Come Under Laser Focus (nytimes.com)

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Sutton Hoo and Syria: Anglo-Saxons who served in the Byzantine army? (oup.com)

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How Pac-Man Revolutionized Gaming (2020) (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)

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Wends of Texas (wikipedia.org)

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Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins (sciencedirect.com)

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Dancing Days of the Maya (archaeology.org)

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The accidental invention of the snow globe (2024) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Archimedes, Vitruvius and Leonardo: The Odometer Connection (2020) (scirp.org)

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Abstand and Ausbau Languages (wikipedia.org)

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Secondary Consciousness (wikipedia.org)

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White House Reconstruction (wikipedia.org)

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Gods: Charles Fort's Book of the Damned (1919) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Synergistic, multi-level understanding of psychedelics (nature.com)

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Why did clothing become boring? (resobscura.substack.com)

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Minakata Kumagusu (wikipedia.org)

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For the Love of a Little Sea (hakaimagazine.com)

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Magicians Mount Search for Woman Behind Decades-Old Deception (nytimes.com)

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With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist (nytimes.com)

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Reconstruction of Lomonosov's Discovery of Venus's Atmosphere (2012) [pdf] (fnal.gov)

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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography (theamericanscholar.org)

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Diving to Drink a 19th-Century Shipwreck's Treasure (nytimes.com)

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A deep history of Halloween (resobscura.substack.com)

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The Frankfurt Kitchen (2011) (moma.org)

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Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing letters? (resobscura.substack.com)

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What Makes Good Historical Fiction? (historytoday.com)

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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs (historytoday.com)

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Deep learning-based detection of qanat water systems using spy satellite imagery (sciencedirect.com)

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On 17th century "cocaine" (resobscura.substack.com)

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Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest (ageofinvention.xyz)

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Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over history (cell.com)

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Yasuke (wikipedia.org)

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The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World (2020) (openculture.com)

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Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri (wikipedia.org)

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Aliens and the Enlightenment (historytoday.com)

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How to make 3k-year-old beer (nytimes.com)

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Excuse this ghastly handwriting: When letter writers become self-conscious (lettersofnote.com)

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Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 Edition) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Persian Silver in Early Medieval Scotland (buttondown.com/modernmedieval)

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Caftan (Metropolitan Museum of Art) (wikipedia.org)

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Forensic toxicology backdates the use of coca plant in Europe to the early 1600s (sciencedirect.com)

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Early Scenes: Remembering a Childhood in the South Bronx (newyorker.com)

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'The Cheese and the Worms': Carlo Ginzburg Launches Microhistory (mitpress.mit.edu)

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King John's Lost Treasure (historytoday.com)

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The voyage of the Altar Stone: A Stonehenge mystery solved (maybe) (washingtonpost.com)

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A Nice, Provocative Silence: An Interview with the Author of Cahokia Jazz (historynewsnetwork.org)

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Voice is a garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian sound visualizations (themarginalian.org)

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Just Say It, Henry (lrb.co.uk)

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Ettore Majorana (wikipedia.org)

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Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery (arstechnica.com)

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Lewis Lapham has died (nytimes.com)

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Experimental replication of early human behaviour in bird preparation (frontiersin.org)

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The Man Who Invented Times Square (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Agenda (1988 Video Game) (wikipedia.org)

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Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards (smithsonianmag.com)

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A Man Who Invented Times Square: O.J. Gude and the Birth of the Spectacular (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Identification and measurement of economic growth in a Roman imperial province (science.org)

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Johannes Hartlieb's Book of Herbs (1462) (publicdomainreview.org)

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How the Denisovans Survived the Ice Age (nytimes.com)

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World’s End (1980) (lrb.co.uk)

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Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England (folger.edu)

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The Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes That Sculpt Our Planet (nytimes.com)

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[dupe] Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (nature.com)

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The Mind Is a Metaphor: About the Database (virginia.edu)

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A Benchmark for Learning to Translate a New Language from One Grammar Book (arxiv.org)

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Diagraming sentences in the 19th century (publicdomainreview.org)

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Oulipo's use of the Tohoku paper (2014) (neverendingbooks.org)

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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece (historytoday.com)

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Centuries of Childhood (resobscura.substack.com)

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Francis Ford Coppola's “Godfather Notebook” (jillianhess.substack.com)

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Edo-period teens tackling math's toughest problems (nippon.com)

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In the Ruins of Edward Gibbon's Masterpiece (newrepublic.com)

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Beginning the End: In the zero thickness of the International Date Line (2009) (cabinetmagazine.org)

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Edo-Period Teens Tackling Math's Toughest Problems (nippon.com)

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Just Live (drb.ie)

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Surviving History: The Fever (2014) (theappendix.net)

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A Computational Approach to the Nineteenth-Century Language of Technology (2023) (jhu.edu)

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Amateur Historians Heard Tales of a Lost Tudor Palace. Then, They Dug It Up (nytimes.com)

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Why I love etymologies (resobscura.substack.com)

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The Database of Religious History (religiondatabase.org)

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A systematic methodology to assess the identity of plants in historical texts (sciencedirect.com)

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My awkward road to unnatural extinction (princeton.edu)

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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal (resobscura.substack.com)

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Reading Early Medicine (readingearlymedicine.org)

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Player-Driven Emergence in LLM-Driven Game Narrative (arxiv.org)

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Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales before industrial technology (hakaimagazine.com)

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The Climate Archive (climatearchive.org)

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Laudatio Turiae (wikipedia.org)

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Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data (sciencedirect.com)

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Why I Love Etymologies: Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8k years old (resobscura.substack.com)

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MapReader: Computer vision pipeline for exploring and analyzing images at scale (living-with-machines.github.io)

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The Analytical Language of John Wilkins (wikipedia.org)

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For Caleb Carr, Salvation Arrived on Little Cat's Feet (nytimes.com)

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