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The Telegraph: Portable loos and Belgian officiousness: When ‘war’ breaks out at the Battle of Waterloo, 2015
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The New Yorker: WORLD WITHOUT END, Creating a full-scale digital cosmos.
By Raffi Khatchadourian The universe is being built in an old two-story building, in the town of Guildford, half an hour by train from London. About a dozen people are working on it. They
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Fortune: Electronic Arts will release the first ‘Star Wars’ video game since Disney shut down LucasArts in 2013
By John Gaudiosi: The first Star Wars game since Disney acquired Lucasfilm could generate more than $600 million in revenue. A month before Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens hits theaters on December
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The Guardian: Why political board games have the power to change our view of the world
By Matt Thrower Tabletop games offer a face-to-face opportunity to convey a message that the impersonal world of online gaming misses We label board games as cerebral things; toys for the mind. I agreed, until
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The Sydney Morning Herald: Gallipoli at 100
By the Staff of The Sydney Morning Herald: Part I: By Tony Wright Why Anzac’s heroics and horrors have a hold on history There is a spot behind Quinn’s Post cemetery high up on
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New York Times: President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin (150 Years Ago, Today)
[OFFICIAL.] WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 15 — 1:30 A.M. Maj.-Gen. Dix: President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin.; The Deed Done at Ford’s Theatre Last Night. THE ACT OF A DESPERATE REBEL The President Still
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Wired: April 10, 1815: Tambora Explosion Triggers ‘Volcanic Winter’
by Randy Alfred The 200th anniversary of the Tambora eruption and “the year without a summer.” 1815: Tambora volcano in the East Indies erupts with a mighty roar. It sends enough pulverized rock into
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The New York Times: Lee Surrenders to Grant (150 years Ago today).
From Our Own (NYT) Correspondent.
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