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East Of Palo Alto’s Eden: Race And The Formation Of Silicon Valley

What if Silicon Valley had emerged from a racially integrated community? Would the technology industry be different?  Would we? And what can the..

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    8 Inventions by Women That Dudes Got Credit For

    Monopoly, nuclear fission, and programming: Ladies did it first.

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        Four Reasons Everyone Should Thank Unions On Labor Day

        It's worth remembering that Labor day is more than just a three-day weekend.

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          The Fascinating Story Behind Why So Many Nail Technicians Are Vietnamese

          Most Americans recognize Tippi Hedren for her starring role in Alfred Hitchcock’s horror film The Birds—but among the Vietnamese American community, her reputation is for something a little more serious: being a cornerstone of the immigrant communi

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            Curating humanity's heritage

            It's been said that when an elder dies, it's as if a library is burned. Anthropologist Elizabeth Lindsey, a National Geographic Fellow, collects the deep cultural knowledge passed down as stories and lore.

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              All 43 Presidents, Ranked by How Hard They Partied

              Things get really weird right around Martin Van Buren.

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                The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People | Podio

                Discover how some of the world’s greatest minds organized their daily routines. We delved into their diaries and other documents to see how they worked, slept and exercised their way to success.

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                    The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking

                    The Germans had vastly more work camps and ghettos than anyone knew.

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                      The Origins and Meanings of Ashkenazic Last Names - Jewish Currents

                      by Bennett Muraskin Ashkenazic Jews were among the last Europeans to take family names. Some German-speaking Jews took last names as early as the 17th century, but the overwhelming majority of Jews lived in Eastern Europe and did not take…

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                      6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

                      It turns out our teachers, Hollywood and whoever we got our Thanksgiving mythology from (Big Turkey?) all made America's origin story far more boring than it actually was for some very disturbing reasons.