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- Old Print Articles: Husband uses scissors to get back jewelry from estranged wife (1885) + Ice wagons cause mayhem (1885-1902).
- Classic Photographs: Flower Bouquets Come to Ragpicker’s Row+ Öndör Gongor Towers Over His Comrades.
- Featured Videos: Tom Snyder interviews Dennis Kucinich (1978) + Malcolm McLaren derides the karaoke culture + Milton Friedman vs. Phil Donahue (1979) + ABBA visits Dick Cavett (1981) + Astronaut Barbie enjoys disco dancing (1985) + Ice fishing with bare hands in Russia + David Frost interviews John and Yoko (1969) + Tupperware home party (1961) + Neurologist V.S. Ramachandran on brain disorders + Meet Kraftwerk’s robot doubles + Small, cheap swarming robots + Machine destroying stuff.
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- Terry Southern passes time at Larry Flynt’s insane California estate in 1983.
- In 1966, Ray Bradbury told Oriana Fallaci why we should travel into space.
- What will passenger planes be like in 2050?
- In 1993, James Gleick accurately predicted the efficacy of cell phones.
- Madalyn Murray O’Hair became America’s chief atheist in 1965.
- Adult star John Holmes goes from porn to worse in 1981.
- Joaquin Phoenix predicted America would go crazy.
- Tom Wolfe profiles deejay Murray the K in 1965.
- Tom Wolfe writes about New Journalism in 1972.
- David Foster Wallace goes to the Illinois State Fair in 1994.
- David Foster Wallace profiles David Lynch in 1996.
- Nikola Tesla’s invention loosens Mark Twain’s bowels.
- What became of Apple’s first ten employees?
- David Grann goes in search of the lost explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett.
- Stephen Jay Gould was profiled in People in 1986.
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