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# History

## People

* [The Story Behind the Photo of 10-Year-Old Japanese Boy Carries His Deceased Brother to a Cremation Pyre, 1945](https://vintagenewsdaily.com/the-story-behind-the-photo-of-10-year-old-japanese-boy-carries-his-deceased-brother-to-a-cremation-pyre-1945/)

## Interesting

* [Scientists unravel the mystery of the Roman 'gate to hell'](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/09/world/mystery-gates-to-hell-hierapolis/index.html)

## Naval

* [Into the unknown](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/01/mawson-trek/)
* [Antartic Snow Crusier](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Snow_Cruiser)
* [Salvaging the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow 1924-1931](https://www.naval-history.net/WW1z12aCox.htm)

## Technology

* [The core memory inside a Saturn V rocket's computer](http://www.righto.com/2020/03/the-core-memory-inside-saturn-v-rockets.html)
* [The History Of WD-40 Is Stranger Than You Think And No This Isn't Sponsored Content I Just Thought It Was Weird](https://jalopnik.com/the-history-of-wd-40-is-stranger-than-you-think-and-no-1841585147)
* [The history of the URL](https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-history-of-the-url/)
* [Distributed Supercomputing Before the Cloud: The Legacy of SETI@Home](https://thenewstack.io/distributed-supercomputing-before-the-cloud-the-legacy-of-setihome/)
* [Capitalism’s Favorite Drug - The dark history of how coffee took over the world](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/michael-pollan-coffee/606805/)
* [distributed.net was the Internet's first general-purpose distributed computing project.](http://www.distributed.net/Main_Page)
* [Analog computer](https://www.righto.com/2019/09/reverse-engineering-precision-op-amps.html)
* [Ultimate talk to Apollo Computer Guidance (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7Lfh5SKUQ)
* [Pájaro carpintero ruso](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1jaro_Carpintero_Ruso)
* [Six Decades of Software Engineering](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/six-decades-software-engineering/)
* [How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel](https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-university-of-minnesota-banned-open-source)