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    architecture White Gates, iconic mid-century home in Phoenix, facing demolition by new owner Jennifer Sandlin
  • slavery The Boston Public Library needs help transcribing 40,000 anti-slavery documents from the 19th century Thom Dunn
  • music Newly digitized mixtapes from 80s and 90s club DJs Andrea James
  • crime Millionaire fined after using children's gravestones to build a patio Andrea James
  • Promotional photo from The Shambles
    travel The famed crooked house of Windsor is now a cafe bar and bottle shop Popkin
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    National register of historic places! Visit a historic shell-shaped Shell gas station in Winston-Salem, NC Popkin
  • Pages from Games Master 001, by Future Publishing, (1993)
    Technology Video Game History Foundation to release scans of 1,500 vintage gaming magazines Ellsworth Toohey
  • Bronze sword used by King Goujian of Yue Credit: Windmemories / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
    archaeology This 2,500-year-old Chinese sword looks like "something from the J.R.R. Tolkien universe that has entered the actual historical record" Ellsworth Toohey
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    Science There's a room-sized time capsule in Georgia that will be opened 6,098 years from now Ellsworth Toohey
  • History In 1958, a American B-47 bomber accidentally dropped an unarmed nuclear bomb on a family farm Mark Frauenfelder
  • happy mutants The Doo Dah Parade is the "twisted sister of the conventional Rose Parade" Jennifer Sandlin
  • home "I bought an abandoned lighthouse for $71k and spent $300k making it a home" (video) David Pescovitz
  • rome Construction crew digs up magnificent 2,000-year-old marble head that had been reused as building material David Pescovitz
  • media L.A. Public Library now has a DIY lab for digitizing old media like VHS tapes Rusty Blazenhoff
  • History US giving away free lighthouses to groups who will take care of them David Pescovitz
  • Rats, c. 18th century. (public domain)
    History A rat's nest in George Washington's bedroom was chock-full of treasures Jennifer Sandlin
  • arizona Discover the unbelievable art car collection in southern Arizona Jennifer Sandlin
  • crimes Long-missing, this cane's handle is carved with Jack the Ripper's creepy face David Pescovitz
  • History Horses were in North America before Europeans. Don't tell Tucker Carlson. Elías Villoro
  • science fiction Octavia Butler's Kindred to premiere on Hulu on December 13 Elías Villoro

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