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US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years in November (yahoo.com)

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Trump Says He's Not Concerned with Decline of US Dollar (yahoo.com)

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Gold and Silver Signal the End of American Financial Dominance (jezebel.com)

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RyanAir Launches "Big Idiot Seat Sale" for Elon Musk (liveandletsfly.com)

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Russian Footprints (2006) (nationalreview.com)

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Iranian Crown Prince in Exile – Interview with Reza Pahlavi (2025) [video] (youtube.com)

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Chinese Demand for Copper Vanishes After Prices Hit Record (yahoo.com)

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Mutually Intelligible Languages (academia-lab.com)

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Syria has new banknotes. They have opted for colours and symbols (whitemad.pl)

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A Woman on a NY Subway Just Set the Tone for Next Year (honest-broker.com)

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A Woman on a NY Subway Just Set the Tone for Next Year (honest-broker.com)

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923) (gutenberg.org)

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Steve Allen on hippies, and coining the word "Hippie" (1989) (youtube.com)

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Iran Announces the Salman Rushdie Fatwa Video Game (2012) (time.com)

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Canada's former Ambassador to Venezuela: Trump's plan to dominate [audio] (canadaland.com)

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The Martingale betting system: the history and the fallacy (2023) (unabated.com)

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UK Influencer Livestreams Encounter with Ringo Starr, Whom He Doesn't Recognize (stereogum.com)

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Waterfox 6.6.6 release notes: Privacy hardening (waterfox.com)

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Breaking Down Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy (brookings.edu)

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What happens to the stock market when the dollar collapses? [video] (youtube.com)

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Ukraine's 'Crazy' New Drone Tech [video] (youtube.com)

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The Ford Edsel (1960) (newyorker.com)

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Michael Lewis 'Against the Rules': Michael Burry Speaks [audio] (pushkin.fm)

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Time.com: Visions Of the 21st Century (2000) (archive.org)

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Two Conquerors, Two Kinds of Men (1940) (nytimes.com)

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Napoleon and Hitler (1942) (foreignaffairs.com)

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African Americans and the Making of Liberia (2021) (gilderlehrman.org)

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Mae West jailed; court sees trial as vindication of city's morals (1927) (nytimes.com)

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Artist Reconstructs Face of Julius Caesar and Others from Ancient History (boredpanda.com)

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Suppressing ability to lie makes LLM more likely to claim it's conscious (livescience.com)

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Frick and Frack: What's in a name? (1990) (chicagotribune.com)

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Garibaldi, history's sexiest revolutionary? (historyextra.com)

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Grifters Say They've Made a Pill That Could Let You Live to 150 (vice.com)

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Oh Yeah? Forecasting Follies Around the 1929 Crash (1931/2018) (novelinvestor.com)

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AI note-taking startup Fireflies was really two guys typing notes by hand (pcgamer.com)

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Illegitimi Non Carborundum (wikipedia.org)

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Investors use dotcom era playbook to dodge AI bubble risks (reuters.com)

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The roots of Islamic anger (2001-10-14) (theguardian.com)

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Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear (importai.substack.com)

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We're reading the secrets of Herculaneum's lost library (newscientist.com)

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The Art of Flânerie (2023) (flaneurs.cafe)

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Lightning Fast VCR Repair Store (geocities.ws)

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Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf] (scamcouver.wordpress.com)

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Pay the Two Dollars (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Is there an AWS outage today?

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USF warns students after Meta glasses harassment reports (sfchronicle.com)

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Face Robot: AheadForm Origin M1 (Only Head) (youtube.com)

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Original 7 Segment Display Patent (1903) (patents.google.com)

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The Curtain Rises (1944) (time.com)

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The Tariff: Voices for Veto (1930) (time.com)

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Archaeologists Find Earliest Reference to Jesus as God Under a Prison (splashtravels.com)

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The Meaning of Nostalgia (1971) (time.com)

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Entrex 480 Data/Scope Ads from the '70s (entrex480.blogspot.com)

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How the Balloon-Borne "Flying Lawn Chair" Got into the Smithsonian (2019) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Reversal Times in the Stock Market (thepatternsite.com)

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Amputee Rights Advocate Demonstrates Her Bionic Hands (laughingsquid.com)

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It's True: Gasoline Has an Expiration Date (2023) (popularmechanics.com)

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When can I reuse this calendar? (whencanireusethiscalendar.com)

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Yemen Jews Flown to Israel; 'Operation Magic Carpet' (1949) (nytimes.com)

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Song of the New York World's Fair (1939) [audio] (youtube.com)

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The Nostalgia Wave of the Seventies (2005) (mercurie.blogspot.com)

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The Last Vestal Virgin and the Fall of Rome (debramaymacleod.com)

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Psychic's advice cost billionaire heiress $80M in crypto (cointelegraph.com)

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Catholicism and the Paganization of Christianity (daniel-cho.com)

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On the screen, Libyans learned about everything but themselves (2021) (newlinesmag.com)

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Sandra Laing: The Outcast (2009) (thetimes.com)

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Letter from Giuseppe Garibaldi to President Lincoln (1863) (battlefields.org)

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Hyder and Stewart: A Tale of Two Border Towns (2018) (johnzada.com)

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1948: Catholic Church publishes final edition of “Index Librorum Prohibitorum” (historyofinformation.com)

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Comprehensive design considerations for a new hospital gown (2022) (nih.gov)

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"Berlin Wall" Speech – President Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate (1987) (video) (youtube.com)

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Arab States Call for Hamas to Disarm Amid Push for a Palestinian State (nytimes.com)

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What is an Atari Democrat? (2009) (retroist.com)

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The Napster (2000) (time.com)

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A Great Way to Snub the World (1981) (time.com)

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A Nazi-Obsessed Amateur Historian Went from Obscurity to the Top of Substack (motherjones.com)

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Radio vs. Phonograph (1926) (time.com)

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What Does ROC Law Say About Taiwan? (usali.org)

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Striking It Rich: A new breed of risk takers bets on the high-tech future (1982) (time.com)

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The Torch of Terrorism (1994) (time.com)

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The Day Wall Street Was Silent (1979) (time.com)

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Canada First (1930) (time.com)

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Boating Superstitions (hubbardsmarina.com)

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Benetton's Confusing Legacy of Brand Activism (2021) (jeffswystun.medium.com)

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Exi (Subculture) (wikipedia.org)

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Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan: Hunter Biden Interview [video] (youtube.com)

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WWII Veteran Recalls Discovering a Nazi Concentration Camp [video] (youtube.com)

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"Far out, man": how Jimi Hendrix boosted the career of Sha Na Na (2024) (faroutmagazine.co.uk)

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Canadian unemployment rate unexpectedly drops in June to 6.9% (theglobeandmail.com)

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Why Is There Ash in My Cheese? (cheesescientist.com)

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On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia (2023) (lithub.com)

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Wikipedia's Overlink Crisis (wikipedia.org)

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An Illinois town kept Lidice on the map, a UK town helped rebuild it (2020) (expats.cz)

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Trump announces 35% tariffs on all Canadian goods starting Aug. 1 (theglobeandmail.com)

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Dépanneurs (walkmontreal.com)

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Kodak Film Fogged by the Trinity Test (1945) (orau.org)

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UK House of Commons Debate on Middle East Policy (1949) (hansard.parliament.uk)

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Secret Agent Man (1986) (rollingstone.com)

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Emily Lau on the state of democracy in Hong Kong [video] (youtube.com)

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Filibus (1915) [video] (wikipedia.org)