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Why Fort Knox is Totally Forbidden

Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large portion of the United States’ official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated. The United States Bullion Depository, often known as Fort Knox, is a fortified vault building adjacent to the […]

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The Battle for Las Vegas

A closer look at the competition between MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment for supremacy on the Las Vegas Strip. Just two operating companies control a large part of the Casino business in the gambling capital. This video dives into the mergers, acquisitions, and high-stakes business gambles that led to today’s fascinating situation. It presents

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The Industrial Revolution | Mankind: The Story of All of Us (S1, E11) | Full Episode | History

The end of the Civil War allows Mankind to go into overdrive. This is an age of innovation, transformation, and mass production. People believe that “Anything, everything, is possible.” See more in Season 1, Episode 11, “Speed.” This is Episode 11, if you’d like to watch more episodes please visit History Channel’s Playlist on Youtube.

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The Hidden Science of Fireworks

Fireworks are a class of low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. They are most commonly used in fireworks displays (also called a fireworks show or pyrotechnics), combining a large number of devices in an outdoor setting. Such displays are the focal point of many cultural and religious celebrations. Fireworks take many forms to produce four primary

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Why The First Computers Were Made Out Of Light Bulbs

A vacuum-tube computer, now termed a first-generation computer, is a computer that uses vacuum tubes for logic circuitry. Although superseded by second-generation transistorized computers, vacuum-tube computers continued to be built into the 1960s. These computers were mostly one-of-a-kind designs. The use of cross-coupled vacuum-tube amplifiers to produce a train of pulses was described by Eccles and Jordan in 1918. This circuit became the

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Why The Pan American Highway Was Never Completed

The Darién Gap is a geographic region in the Isthmus of Darien or Isthmus of Panama connecting the North and South American continents within Central America, consisting of a large watershed, forest, and mountains in Panama’s Darién Province and the northern portion of Colombia’s Chocó Department. The “gap” bisects the Pan-American Highway, of which the 106 km (66 mi) between Yaviza, Panama, on one side, and Turbo, Colombia, on the

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