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Before the legendary aircraft took flight, it took 25 hours to fly from New York to Los Angeles
April 2013
| By Kathleen Burke
A new film recreates the epic voyage—and revives the controversy over its legendary leader, Thor Heyerdahl
April 2013
| By Franz Lidz
As we move closer to the Jetsonian vision of choosing outfits, privacy has gone out of fashion
March 20, 2013
| By Matt Novak
While Hawaii was once the big kahuna in pineapple production, it's since been overtaken by other global powers
March 20, 2013
| By Jesse Rhodes
Rural Czech communities in Texas have been enjoying the buttery pastry for more than a century, now homesick Texans bring kolaches to the rest of us
April 05, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
The famed playwright reminisces about how he got hooked on collecting artifacts from the golden era of air travel
April 2013
| By David Mamet
An 1838 journey pushed back the borders of the unknown
April 2013
| By Michael Ruane
Modern headphones have their origin in opera houses, military bases and a kitchen table in Utah
March 19, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
Did he, and other Vikings, really use a brutal method of ritual execution called the "blood eagle"?
March 18, 2013
| By Mike Dash
From toxins in textile dyes to torturous corsets, beauty has a long history of coming at a high cost
March 18, 2013
| By Emily Spivack
eNewspapers were being developed as far back as the 1930s
March 18, 2013
| By Matt Novak
Isinglass, a gelatine collected from the air-bladders of freshwater fish like the sturgeon, is used in the clarification process of some stouts
March 13, 2013
| By K. Annabelle Smith
It was a decade of Uggs and excess but also styles meant to further the greater good
March 06, 2013
| By Emily Spivack
The rise and fall and rise of the traditional St. Patrick's Day meal
March 15, 2013
| By Shaylyn Esposito
This weekend, learn about wasps that live inside their prey, meet Smithsonian's first secretary from 1846 and see living rooms from 150 years ago
March 28, 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
The artists and animators working on "The Jetsons" were inspired by the futurist architecture popping up around Los Angeles
March 14, 2013
| By Matt Novak
It's supposedly the 50th anniversary of the original design of the iconic image, but its history since then is surprisingly complex with millions of dollars at stake
March 13, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
An American whaling ship brought together an oddball crew with a dangerous mission: freeing six Irishmen from a jail in western Australia
March 12, 2013
| By Gilbert King
Harry Selfridge, a London department store owner, may have opened the doors to more than just his retail store when he gave women a chance to power shop
March 13, 2013
| By Amy Henderson
In 1820, one of Britain's most notorious criminals hatched a plan to rescue the emperor from exile on the Atlantic isle of St Helena -- but did he ever try it?
March 08, 2013
| By Mike Dash
Why Beethoven, Galileo, Napoleon and others never truly rested in peace
March 07, 2013
| By Marina Koren
Visionary designers of the 19th century believed that the future of air travel depended on elaborate airships
March 05, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
Though evidence against his theory grew, Kon-Tiki sailor Thor Heyerdahl never steered from his course
July 2002
| By Richard Conniff
3D printing is a new technology that seems poised to change the world, but its origins date back all the way to the 15th century
March 01, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
The whaler Essex was indeed sunk by a whale—and that's only the beginning
March 01, 2013
| By Gilbert King
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