"Duolingo is an educational app that helps you to learn foreign languages. But what if it already existed in the 1980s? Well, here it is, Duolingo in 1980's style! ..."
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Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 82 views • 14:39"Olympic sports are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. They are Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics. Besides, there are two more Olympics. They are Special Olympics and Paralympics.... continue reading
posted by ant 2 years 8 months ago • 15 views • 2:40S&H Green Stamps was one of the first customer reward programs handed out by various retailers. They were collected with great excitement by American families from the 1930s through the 1980s.
posted by bobknight33 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 25 views • 8:07The historian Allan Lichtman was the lonely forecaster who predicted Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 — and also prophesied the president would be impeached. That’s two for two. But Professor Lichtman’s... continue reading
posted by mxxcon 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 12 views • 7:14"The Count needs the help of the Miami Mice to make it to the spaceship countdown on time!"
posted by ant 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 65 views • 5:05YT: In a field near Elberton, Georgia, USA, sit a set of mysterious standing stones: mysterious not because they're ancient, but because they were funded by someone anonymous in 1980, perhaps as a message... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 5 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 400 views • 3:08YouTube description: It’s an 1980s pop music cliche that dates back to 1910. If you listen to the first few seconds of Bruno Mars’ “Finesse” (hint: listen to the Cardi B remix) you’ll hear... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 594 views • 9:26Coined in 1990 by author and attorney Mike Godwin, Godwin’s Law was originally, to quote Godwin “a project in memetic engineering”, partially inspired by a 1980s article he read in Whole Earth Review... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 weeks ago • 19 views • 5:38I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I stumbled upon one... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,223 views • 3:54YouTube description: The average American consumes more than 3,600 calories daily – a 24% increase from 1961, when the average was just 2,880 calories. Americans haven't increased their consumption... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months ago • 697 views • 1:37YouTube description: In March 1974, Chinese farmers digging a well unearthed the greatest archaeological find of the century - the buried Terracotta Army. After coming across a life-sized human head... continue reading
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