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Hexxus, Captain Pollution, and the heyday of animated eco-villains.

Never trust a man who says he'll triple your investment in composting worms.

From cigarette packaging to wet-floor cautions, warnings have become pervasive.

A 1994 lawsuit scared other developers away from the garbage can.

One critic called its atrium the "most pleasant interior public space" built in New York City in years.

Invisibility creeps closer to becoming a reality but we still don't know how to see out of it.

Thanks to unabashed false advertising, this 20th-century patent medicine survived lawsuits and eight decades of medical advancements.

The madams of Puget Sound were spitfire entrepreneurs who lived dangerously and died young.

Despite all technological advances that allow real-time play, correspondence chess is still going strong.

Perhaps thanks to costume dramas, the modesty-minded side saddle has come back into style.

Sometimes being monogamous is the best thing for an empire.

Meet the Euphonia, a machine that boasted the ability to replicate human speech.

How a whole prehistoric subspecies came to stand in for an extremely modern type of backwardness.

Eliasz Klimowicz's followers believed he was Christ reborn.

In the 1980s Atari offered golden treasures as gaming prizes, most of which were lost to time. Until now.

Turn right at a burnt-out bridge to find the source of the creek that fed the World's Fair fountains.

There's a revolution brewing in that pot of Earl Grey.

From Greece to Mongolia, incendiary songs flourish.