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East Of Palo Alto’s Eden: Race And The Formation Of Silicon Valley

What if Silicon Valley had emerged from a racially integrated community? Would the technology industry be different?  Would we? And what can the..

Excellent article on de facto segregation, wealth distribution, and discrimination.

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8 Inventions by Women That Dudes Got Credit For

Monopoly, nuclear fission, and programming: Ladies did it first.

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Better Identification Of Viking Corpses Reveals: Half Of The Warriors Were Female

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Four Reasons Everyone Should Thank Unions On Labor Day

It's worth remembering that Labor day is more than just a three-day weekend.

Thank you Norma Rae and Unions!

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The Fascinating Story Behind Why So Many Nail Technicians Are Vietnamese

Most Americans recognize Tippi Hedren for her starring role in Alfred Hitchcock’s horror film The Birds—but among the Vietnamese American community, her reputation is for something a little more serious: being a cornerstone of the immigrant communi

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Curating humanity's heritage

It's been said that when an elder dies, it's as if a library is burned. Anthropologist Elizabeth Lindsey, a National Geographic Fellow, collects the deep cultural knowledge passed down as stories and lore.

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All 43 Presidents, Ranked by How Hard They Partied

Things get really weird right around Martin Van Buren.

Dolley Madison was the best first lady ever!

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The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People | Podio

Discover how some of the world’s greatest minds organized their daily routines. We delved into their diaries and other documents to see how they worked, slept and exercised their way to success.

Fascinating

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The Two Faces of Empire: Melville Knew Them, We Still Live With Them | Blog, The Long View | BillMoyers.com

Two characters from Herman Melville's novels foretold the dangerous future of American empire.

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The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking

The Germans had vastly more work camps and ghettos than anyone knew.

This is why we can't and never should stop talking about the Holocaust.

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The Origins and Meanings of Ashkenazic Last Names - Jewish Currents

by Bennett Muraskin Ashkenazic Jews were among the last Europeans to take family names. Some German-speaking Jews took last names as early as the 17th century, but the overwhelming majority of Jews lived in Eastern Europe and did not take…

Fascinating article tracing Eastern European Jewish family names. No wonder I have had trouble working on my family ancestry tree and tracing family back farther than 4 or 5 generations. It's cool to know how some of my family names were created like Rosenbaum and Kaufman.

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6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

It turns out our teachers, Hollywood and whoever we got our Thanksgiving mythology from (Big Turkey?) all made America's origin story far more boring than it actually was for some very disturbing reasons.