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History

Beyond Big Gulps: 5 Other Bizarre Bans in New York History

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's scuttled rule on jumbo sodas is just the latest in a long line of regulations on verboten goods.... READ ON

Music History

"Black Friday"

With songs about everything from flashy drug czars to downtrodden jazz musicians, Steely Dan have always cast their lyrical net far from the usual romantic fare of pop music. On one of the standout tracks from their 1975 album Katy Lied, they dug back to the 19th century to write about an infamous Wall Street disaster. ... READ ON

Weird Science

10 Constellations that Never Caught On

WWI Centennial

King George I of Greece Assassinated

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List

50 Shades of Gray from the First Comprehensive Guide to Color Naming

After you read this list, you can proudly tell all your friends you were intellectually stimulated by reading 50 shades of gray.... READ ON

History

Google Celebrates UK's WWII Codebreakers

Big Question

Has There Ever Been a Female Pope?

Any information about a female ever controlling the papacy remains shrouded in mystery, but all available signs point to a woman named Joan — Pope Joan... READ ON

Videos

Happy Birthday, Nat "King" Cole!

History

7 Antiquated Illness Names and Their Meanings

Throughout the ages, people have hung some pretty weird names on what’s ailed them. Here are the monikers of a few of the more strangely-named illnesses, and how we know them today.... READ ON

Retrobituaries

Arthur Eichengrün, Inventor of Aspirin

In 1896, chemist Arthur Eichengrün brought forth a miracle—a pure acetylsalicylic acid with medical applications. This was a few years before Lizzie Magie invented the board game Monopoly, and if only the two knew each other, they might have had a lot to talk about. Just as Parker Brothers stole Monopoly from Magie and whitewashed her from history, so to did Bayer make Eichengrün an unperson and cash in on his invention: the aspirin.... READ ON

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