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A Vintage Cuban Rolex Submariner Preserves A Piece of History
2016-02-04 21:59:39| Jewelry - Topix.net
As Cuba emerges from isolation, poised for transformative changes, a recently discovered late-1950s Rolex Submariner is a talisman from the country's turbulent past. The watch had been smuggled out of the country in the wake of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, when its owner escaped to Europe.
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VIDEO: Oil prices: A pipeline in history
2016-02-04 17:46:54| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Follow our pipeline from the 1860s, the birth of the modern oil industry, to see the ups and downs that oil prices have undergone.
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Facts About Hawaii History: 5 Things You Might Not Know
2016-02-02 08:04:52| Airlines - Topix.net
In Hawaii's short history as part of the United States when it was first annexed as a territory in 1898 and then granted full-fledged statehood in 1959, there are several little-known facts about Hawaii that underscore why Hawaii became such an important part of the U.S. Here are five facts about Hawaii's history that you might not know: 1. More SPAM is eaten in Hawaii than in any other U.S. state, so much so that SPAM has been nicknamed "Hawaiian steak," according to The Huffington Post . As many as 7 million cans are consumed annually there.
VIDEO: Falling oil: Is history repeating itself?
2016-02-02 01:56:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The falling price of a barrel of oil has made headline news around the world as demand fails to match supply. But have we been here before?
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Newly discovered Babylonian tablets just rewrote the history of astronomy
2016-01-29 19:17:09| Extremetech
New findings suggest the astronomers of ancient Babylon developed geometry-based astronomy 1400 years earlier than previously thought. This discovery rewrites the timeline of what we thought ancient peoples knew about how to measure distance in the heavens.
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