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How the Terracotta Army Works
Announcer Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from howstuffworks.com. Candace Keynard Hello, and welcome to the Podcast. I’m Editor Candace Keynard joined, as always, by Writer, Jane McGrath....
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A “Ghost Fleet” Haunts the James River
The "Ghost Fleet" back in 2002. (Gary C. Knapp/Getty Images) Ghost ships are always popping up in folklore and fiction — there’s the Flying Dutchman of Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer,” the Black...
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Funny… The problem with DVDs
A picture paints a thousand words: If you are a paying customer, this is what you get This was one (perhaps the only) advantage to video tape – you had some level of control over this kind of...
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How to Destroy the Internet
When U.S. Senator Ted Stevens declared the Internet to be a “series of tubes,” the media had an all-out field day. While that jumbled congressional speech might have been deemed representative of the...
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Self-Driving Cars and Ethical Pirates
This week on TechStuff, Chris and I talked about a couple of topics that have been in the news recently. On Monday, we discussed automated cars that take the human driver out of the experience....
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How to refine oil in your backyard -or- the environmental and economic...
Nigeria is a country that has a lot of oil. It also has a somewhat more Wild West feeling than more developed parts of the world do. And parts of the country experience crushing poverty that provides...
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Stuff Mom Never Told You about Female Pirates
Here’s a fun question for all of you: Who is your favorite pirate? Growing up in North Carolina, I learned an awful lot about Blackbeard, because he spent so much time hanging around my fair state, so...
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Shipwrecks Redux: The Maria Hallett Story
(Hemera/iStockphoto) She didn’t go down with the ship. But Maria Hallett, former lover of pirate Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy, was still a central character in the story of the Whydah shipwreck, one of...
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Missed in History: Stede Bonnet
Illustration of Pirate Major Stede Bonnet © CORBIS During the golden age of piracy, standard operating procedure for a pirate was to commandeer a ship, gather a crew, and start plundering and...
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