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Though Engelbart revolutionized computing in 1967 with the invention of the mouse, he never received any royalties from his creation
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The advent of open fire cooking began with Homo erectus
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Three hundred and fifteen years ago today James Savery's patented the steam engine
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Polish archaeologist Milosz Giersz was terrified that looters would make their way to the site, so he and his colleagues excavated the site in secrecy
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Libya’s civil war might be over, but the aftershocks of the revolution are still reverberating through the country
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For as long as anyone can remember, the safe box - marked simply "Woman Suffrage Party" has sat in the council's New York City office
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Dogs and cats have been with us for centuries, and so has our habit of giving them affectionate names
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The ancient Mayan city of Chactun was once a metropolis with around 35,000 inhabitants. It was abandoned 1,000 years ago, and lost to scholars until now
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Engineers and music experts in New Zealand tinkered with the concepts behind Thomas Edison's original phonograph to make a beer bottle sing
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Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften, or an insurance company that provides legal protection, is now the language's longest word
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Through decades of excavation near their cottage Anton and Maria Chobot unearthed artifacts of the Clovis people
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Called a Howell torpedo, the old military relic was a marvel in its day, and only 50 were ever made
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A forensic art team reconstructed Richard III's face
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The construction company building the road appears to have extracted crushed rocks from the pyramid to use as road fill
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Singapore, Honk Kong, New York, Long Beach, CA, and the Panama and Suez canals are the areas most at risk from invasive species
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Our modern language still has some remnants of the grunting cavemen who came before us
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The petitions lend insight into the lives of African Americans during this tumultuous period in U.S. history, and now they're being digitized
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Now 95, Margot Woelk is ready to share her story of life in the Wolf's Lair
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Rather some chance encounter with the continent down under, researchers think that the original migrants set out to deliberately colonize Australia
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Rather than the Maya influencing the Olmec or vice versus, similarities between their cultures represent a general shift in ancient Mesoamerica
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