The 7 Line is currently undergoing a system upgrade from one that was installed in the 1930s to one run by computers.

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NYC Subway Technology Goes Way Back…to the 1930s

America’s busiest subway system relies on vintage machines

Photo shows a section of the Florida-Caribbean map. In lower left, an insert section shows part of the Caribbean treasure ground. Note heavy concentration of numbers (each location a shipwreck) off the Louisiana coast, and in the Florida Keys.

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Florida Divers Dig Up $1 Million in Sunken Treasure

Treasure hunters find 300-year-old coins from a Spanish fleet off the Florida coast

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70 Years Ago, a B-25 Bomber Crashed Into the Empire State Building

14 people died in the accident

Times Square, New York City

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Times Square’s Iconic Billboards May Be Illegal

Bright lights, big city, breaking the law

Dating human remains (such as this 800-year old skeleton found in Bulgaria) often relies on radiocarbon dating

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Climate Change Might Break Carbon Dating

Fossil fuel emissions mess with the ratio of carbon isotopes in the atmosphere

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Who Were the First People to Eat Chickens?

A find in Israel shows evidence of chicken consumption from as early as 400 B.C.E.

A stone etching on the grave of crewmember Lt. John Irving depicts the dire conditions that the Franklin expedition faced when they reached the Canadian Arctic.

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Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Ended in Gruesome Cannibalism

New bone analysis suggests crew resorted to eating flesh, then marrow

The fragments comprise two parchment leaves, written in Hijazi script on sheep or goat skin.

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Carbon Dating Reveals One of the Oldest Known Copies of the Quran

Manuscript fragments found in U.K. library were written between 568 and 645

Anthophyllite asbestos from Georgia

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Why Are People Still Using Asbestos?

The story holds parallels with that of the tobacco industry

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The International Olympic Committee Just Rescued Its Priceless Video Archive

Seven years and 100,000 hours of work later, the IOC’s archive has been digitized and preserved

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Central Park Has 22 Statues of Historical Figures. Every Single One is a Man.

Could a crusade to bring historic women into the park change the face of the city?

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In the 1960s, One Man Took Washington D.C.’s Rat Problem Into His Own Hands, Literally

And challenged the city’s race and wealth divide in the process

1924 Doble steam car at the Henry Ford Museum

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Here’s What Steam-Powered Cars Were Like Before the Combustion Engine

The Doble brothers’ built a beautiful steam car in 1924 but mismanagement kept it from being a financial sucess

On July 13, Barnum's American Museum was the site of a disastrous fire.

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150 Years Ago, a Fire in P.T. Barnum’s Museum Boiled Two Whales Alive

Attracting tourists and locals alike, the museum mixed freakshow performers with educational collections

Scripps oceanographer Eric Terrill and BentProp founder Pat Scannon investigate the main fuselage of a TBM Avenger lost 70 years ago during a bombing mission near Palau.

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Divers Turn to Robots for Help Scouring the Pacific for Long-Lost WWII Soldiers

An ongoing effort to recover those missing in action teams military historians, volunteers and scientists

A treasure trove of tiny gold spirals from Boeslunde, Denmark

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Archeologists Have Found 2,000 Ancient Golden Spirals and They Have No Idea What They Are

The meaning or purpose behind the spirals is unclear, but they probably were part of a ritual

Workmen constructing the Statue of Liberty in Bartholdi's Parisian warehouse workshop in the winter of 1882.

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The Statue of Liberty Arrived in New York in 350 Pieces

Luckily, she also came with an instruction manual

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Explore This Map of 13 Centuries’ Worth of English Metaphors

How long ago did English speakers start linking chickens with fearfulness?

New Horizons snapped this image of Pluto on July 12, 2015.

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How Pluto Got Its Name

New Horizons carries an instrument named for Venetia Burney, the 11-year-old girl who named Pluto

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Here’s What the First Lady Has to Do if She Wants to Redecorate

A few throw pillows and a touch of new paint? No way.

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