Archives for February 2015
This Little-Known Colombian Carnival Sets the Standard for Madness and Mayhem
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The Fearless Black Cowboy of the Wild, Wild West
The Amazing Aviatrix of Wartime Casablanca
“A daring teenage girl defies authority to become Morocco’s first female pilot and the hero of a young nation—then the victim of an assassination still shrouded in mystery.”
How the Photocopier Changed the Way We Worked—and Played
in 1959, Xerox released the “914”—the first easy-to-use photocopier. They “expected customers would make about 2,000 copies a month—but users easily made 10,000 a month, and some as many as 100,000. Before the 914 machine, Americans made 20 million copies a year, but by 1966 Xerox had boosted the total to 14 billion.”