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Looking Back on V-J Day 75 Years Later

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(via Smithsonian) How Americans celebrated the end of World War II As word of the Japanese surrender spread throughout the

(via Neatorama) In 1939, producer Rudolf Ising and his MGM animation unit were in trouble. Ising, on an inspiration, decided

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(via Atlas Obscura) The stonemasons of the Freiburg Minster in southern Germany go to great lengths—and heights.

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(via Smithsonian) The United States is the one of the world’s only holdouts at this point, but it could have

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(via Atlas Obscura) The main source for its largest megaliths is just a stone’s throw from the iconic site.

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(via Smithsonian) Everything changed in an instant. One moment, it was a warm summer’s day with a few clouds in

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(via Smithsonian) A new book examines the 500-year record of devastating storms affecting the nation’s trajectory

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(via Mental Floss) Even during the worst economic downturn in modern American history, some folks still managed to make a

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(via Mental Floss) The Oregon Trail has been immortalized in pop culture through Western films and the incredibly popular computer

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(via Smithsonian) Peter Lax was just a teenager when he went to Los Alamos to join the team that developed

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(via Mental Floss) Devo and Thomas Pynchon. Mick Jagger and Charles Baudelaire. Though they seem like rather unlikely pairings, many

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(via The Atlantic) Fluff. The sticky sweet marshmallow creme was invented exactly one hundred years ago in Somerville, Massachusetts—at the