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Charts & Graphs time

Chart showing what can happen in 250 milliseconds.

In the Blink of an Eye

A lot can happen in 250 milliseconds.

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Charts & Graphs foreigners

Finding a Common Enemy

Finding a Common Enemy

Alliances between unlikely friends.

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Charts & Graphs epidemic

Cold Cases

Cold Cases

Identifying mystery plagues.

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Charts & Graphs magic shows

For Better or Worse

The origins of lucky and unlucky charms.

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Charts & Graphs celebrity

Celebrity Deathmatch

Fighting words, and sometimes fists.

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Charts & Graphs foreigners

Name Calling

Racial slurs and their first uses.

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Charts & Graphs the sea

Seaworthy Vessels

Match the sailor to the boat.

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Charts & Graphs book of nature

Forms Assumed by Zeus

For his rape of mortal women.

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Charts & Graphs comedy

A chart detailing times that authors have called other authors names in their work

Name Calling

From the insulter to the insulted.

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Charts & Graphs revolutions

False Starts

Failed rebellions and revolts.

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Charts & Graphs friendship

Tokens of Appreciation

Gifts befitting a friend.

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Charts & Graphs music

Wild Combinations

Genres formed by musical collisions and appropriations.

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Charts & Graphs luck

Be Careful What You Wish For

Be Careful What You Wish For

Winning the lottery: not always so lucky in the end.

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Charts & Graphs spies

Live and Let Die

The demise of spies.

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Charts & Graphs freedom

As Free as the Gods

Liberation tropes in world mythology.

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