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Daily Excerpt Subject
baseball umpires -- 1/31/19
the twenty minutes in 1966 that created the internet -- 1/30/19
bronze age societies did not believe all debts should be paid -- 1/29/19
prostitution in early america -- 1/28/19
how a starch-making company led to the creation of the NFL -- 1/25/19
porgy and bess -- 1/24/19
the "wow!" signal -- 1/23/19
educating the gikuyu children -- 1/22/19
martin luther king and love -- 1/21/19
the origins of tennis -- 1/18/19
"lo" -- 1/17/19
papyrus was an alternative to timber -- 1/16/19
the entire government of portugal moves to brazil -- 1/15/19
pittsburgh's george westinghouse -- 1/14/19
the breakthrough in design that led to the chrysler building -- 1/11/18
gutenberg and wine -- 1/10/19
spontaneous human combustion -- 1/9/19
brazil: where "the work is great and many die"-- 1/8/19
the slaughter of the buffalo -- 1/7/19
the slugfest between DC and marvel comics -- 1/04/19
fifteen plants -- 1/3/19