Stories: Old West & Beyond 01.14.25
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child." —Marcus Tullius Cicero
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1. The Wild West: —Requiem for the Open Range.
2. The Wild West: —All about barbed wire.
3. Lumps of coal, a computer, and love letters were featured in an international auction.
4. The true face of Cleopatra.
5. All about YouTube
6. Words that have worn out their welcome.
7. Sometimes, simple is simply better.
8. A town where the entire population lives on one street.
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Barbed wire signaled the end of the Open Range in the Old West. The invention began a social transformation of the American frontier, which resulted in a "Requiem for the Open Range.”
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Barbed wire featured a broad range of unique designs:
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International auctions often reflect a glimpse into the past and future and attract considerable money. Among the items auctioned off were a desktop computer owned by Steve Jobs, coal from the Titanic, and Albert Einstein’s love letters.
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Images of Cleopatra have always been depicted as a beautiful, alluring woman. Heck, I always thought she looked like Elizabeth Taylor! Archeologists have discovered a white marble statue that they believe is the “true face” of Cleopatra VII.
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Here’s a tool that might come in handy for exploring YouTube. It rates current channels and enables you to discover new ones.
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Cringe, Game Changer, and Era top the latest list of words that should be banished from English. Lake Superior State University points to these and other words that suffer from overuse, misuse, and unnecessary.
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We live in a world where almost everything is digital and where many of our devices require an overnight charge or a factory reset. But not the simple, elegant, and reliable analog clock.
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The sleepy Polish village of Suloszowa is unique in a special way. The entire population of over 5600 residents lives on the same street.
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” —Einstein
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