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Articles by Mike Vago
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aux The 1904 Olympic Marathon was the worst race ever run
By Mike Vago April 12, 2020 | 3:00pm
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aux Meet the female shoplifting gang who ruled London’s West End for a century
By Mike Vago April 5, 2020 | 3:00pm
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aux On one London street, baroque and psychedelic music are neighbors
By Mike Vago March 22, 2020 | 3:00pm
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aux Young Jimmy Carter once averted a nuclear disaster
By Mike Vago March 15, 2020 | 3:00pm
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aux Meet Trump’s used car salesman primary challenger
By Mike Vago March 8, 2020 | 3:00pm
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aux 35 years before the (second) XFL, the USFL brought football into the springtime
By Mike Vago March 1, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux Animal House was tame compared to Oxford’s class of 1355
By Mike Vago February 23, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux Adolphe Sax just couldn’t stop inventing instruments and naming them after himself
By Mike Vago February 16, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux We almost impeached George W. Bush, too
By Mike Vago February 9, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux Next month Yahoo!’s time capsule will reveal the distant past… of 2006
By Mike Vago February 2, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux Pirates helped win the decisive battle in a war that had already ended
By Mike Vago January 26, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux Avast! This french noblewoman-turned-pirate wasn’t out for treasure, just revenge
By Mike Vago January 19, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux The ’Birds and The Beatles: Meet The Liverbirds, the Fab Four’s female contemporaries
By Mike Vago January 12, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux It’s 2020 and we’re going back to Mars
By Mike Vago January 5, 2020 | 4:00pm
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aux Celebrate the holidays the Welsh way—with a singing horse skull
By Mike Vago December 22, 2019 | 4:00pm
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aux When ironing gets hot: How one boring chore was taken to the extreme
By Mike Vago December 15, 2019 | 4:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Caroll Spinney, puppeteer behind Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
By Mike Vago December 8, 2019 | 6:55pm
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aux Penn & Teller’s maddening unreleased video game became a cult sensation online
By Mike Vago December 8, 2019 | 4:00pm
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aux Wikipedia tries to cover the last 10 years of music in one overstuffed page
By Mike Vago November 24, 2019 | 2:00pm
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aux From “deepfake” to “manspreading,” here’s a look at words that dawned in the 2010s
By Mike Vago November 17, 2019 | 4:00pm
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aux 2010’s controversies seem quaint by 2019 standards
By Mike Vago November 10, 2019 | 4:00pm