history
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Bruce Meyers’ Call To Baja Book Shares The Manx Buggy Origin Story
The Meyers Manx dune buggy is an icon of the 1960s and Mexico’s Baja peninsula is hallowed ground for off-road racing. The history of both are intertwined, and the book Call To Baja by the Manx’s inventor himself takes a look at the early days of off-road adventure.
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The Story of Dune, David Lynch, and Hollywood’s Most Notorious Pseudonym
Filmmaking is, occasionally, a labour of love. Mostly, though, it’s a labour of endurance, patience, and compromise ” a lot of compromises ” between directors and pretty much everyone else. When the system works, it’s nothing short of a miracle. When miracles won’t come, Alan Smithee steps in.
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Which Historical Figure Was The Mark Zuckerberg Of Their Time?
Purely on the level of physical appearance, Mark Zuckerberg is unprecedented; I doubt he’s ever once heard the phrase “you know who you look like?” unless the follow-up was “an unfinished police sketch left out in the rain.” But if we’re talking about Zuckerberg the man—or, more precisely, the nihilistically expansionist tech mogul—the historical record…
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The First Semi Truck Was Invented 122 Years Ago To Transport The Earliest US Cars
In 1898, automobiles were still pretty new and pretty hot. In our laziest glory, the U.S. had invented a motorised way of moving ourselves around, but there was a problem. How do you transport the giant motorised machine you just invented? Well, you just make a bigger machine.