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Isinglass, a gelatine collected from the air-bladders of freshwater fish like the sturgeon, is used in the clarification process of some stouts
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An American whaling ship brought together an oddball crew with a dangerous mission: freeing six Irishmen from a jail in western Australia
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The creation of DST is usually credited to George Vernon Hudson, but 100 years earlier, Benjamin Franklin pondered a similar question
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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 try it?
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Why Beethoven, Galileo, Napoleon and others never truly rested in peace
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It was a decade of Uggs and excess but also styles meant to further the greater good
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Visionary designers of the 19th century believed that the future of air travel depended on elaborate airships
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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
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The whaler <i>Essex</i> was indeed sunk by a whale—and that's only the beginning
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How a struggling entrepreneur in Ohio saved his burger business during Lent and changed the McDonald's menu for good.
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Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages
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A cartoonist diagrammed the parade—5,000 suffragists strong—that defiantly marched in Washington more than a century ago
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In 1989, "Life" magazine predicted that, by the year 2000, many staples of modern American life might find themselves on the scrapheap of history
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This ill-advised scheme would have put gigantic barges just off the Atlantic coast? Where would it have started? New Jersey, of course
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New short haircuts announced the wearers' break from tradition and boosted the hairdressing industry
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From the late-19th century to the 1970s, restaurants had one surefire way of standing out
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Vivian Gordon was a reputed prostitute and blackmailer—but her murder led to the downfall of New York Mayor Jimmy Walker
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Travel by pneumatic tubes? The idea was seriously considered in the 1960s
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A new documentary from Smithsonian Channel looks at how the Civil War helped transform the city of Washington, D.C.
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How one author adds actual blues and grays to historic photographs
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