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Venus is at its most brilliant this month

Mariner 10 acquired the images used to create this newly processed composite in February 1974.

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How the white collar was born

Wearing a detached white collar gave rise to a new working social class, the “white-collar” worker.

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The shoemaker’s cabinet and its modern corollary, the shoe shine stand

We’ve protected our feet from the elements for a very long time, perhaps for 50,000 years.