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How The Chinese Accidentally Invented Gunpowder
Gunpowder has been used for centuries, but did you know that the Chinese invented it by complete accident? Here's everything ...
How the Nazis' top interrogator was hired to work on Disney theme parks
Some of the most famous mosaic murals in California, Disneyland and Disney World are the work of Hanns-Joachim Scharff, a ...
How we created the world of the dinosaur
So we knew that the best way to give the show a true sense of realism and wonder was to film in real world locations. But we ...
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The evolution of the metre: How a product of the French Revolution became a mainstay of worldwide scientific collaboration
Physics World corresponding editor Isabelle Dumé reports from a Paris symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of the ...
How ‘Andor’ Season 2 Production Design Gives the Empire Its Oppressive Weight
Andor' Season 2 production designer Luke Hull tells IndieWire where in our world you can go to lobby the Imperial Senate.
'It was born to be a champion': How Dubai chocolate conquered the world
Invented to satiate pregnancy cravings, Dubai chocolate is a rare combination of creativity, flavours and social media ...
How the iconic theme for a pokey little motoring show on the BBC was created.
Top Gear was the “most widely viewed factual TV programme,” according to Guinness World Records in 2012, and hundreds of ...
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How Israel was created and the roots of the Palestinian conflict
The situation changed profoundly with the conquest of swathes of the Ottoman empire by Britain during the First World War. In 1920, Britain was awarded a mandate over the newly created territory ...