The history of the Internet can be roughly divided into three phases. The first, from 1969 to 1990, was all about the inventors: people like Vint Cerf, Steve Crocker, and Robert Taylor. These folks ...

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Times are a-changing, and some household items that were found in every '80s and '90s home are rarely seen today -- we're looking at you, VCR.

Ed. Deborah Madsen and Ridvan Askin. Under submission. “Allegorical Typology, Typological Allegory in American Literature.” In The Oxford Handbook of Allegory. Ed. David Parry. (Oxford: Oxford ...

The years that followed were marked by the dictator’s ruling by decree, by warrantless arrests, by the systemic torture of ...

Don’t ask, don’t tell” remains the unspoken rule for LGBT service members in Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Hiding their identity ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...

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Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or ...

In 1905, a white mob stormed the jail in Harrison, Arkansas, and took two Black prisoners. They were whipped and ordered to leave town. The mob then went on a rampage through Harrison’s Black ...