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The Unsuccessful Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln

As he awaited the outcome of the voting on election night, November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln sat expectantly in the Springfield, Illinois, telegraph office. The results came in around 2 a.m.: Lincoln…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 18, 2013
LENGTH: 35 minutes (8969 words)

The forgotten story of … Heleno de Freitas

Heleno de Freitas's life has been remembered in the film Heleno, starring Rodrigo Santoro, seen playing the character above. Photograph: PR For most in Brazil, what happened in the Rasunda Stadium in…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 11, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1942 words)

Copycats, Takedowns, and Ass Rainbows: What Does Copyright Mean for Internet Memes?

To get a sense of how messy copyright protection has become in the age of Internet meme-dom, start by traveling back in time with me to last year, right after a very famous cat was e-born.…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3039 words)

The Definitive NFL Quarterback Power Rankings

Posted about 15 minutes ago In the NFL, quarterbacks occupy an enormous amount of both the mystique and the attention surrounding the game. A team's resident signal-caller is usually a reflection of…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3959 words)

ESPN - OTL: Lionel Messi, Here & Gone - E-ticket

Hector Rio/Actionplus Messi (front row, second from left) at age 5 and his father (top row, right), with the children's football team of club Grandoli. Beyond the lack of visible acknowledgement, we…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1191 words)

The Week’s Best Longreads

Where is Cuba Going? John Jeremiah Sullivan, The New York Times Magazine Not long ago, there were smart people who doubted that such a thing as a post-Fidel Cuba could even exist. What comes after…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 22, 2012

They Taught America to Watch Football

In the summer of 1968, Steve Sabol went on the road. He was driving a beat-up old car with the windows open. From Pennsylvania to Ohio to Indiana, the towns drifted by, the neon vacancy signs outside…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2296 words)

Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?

Illustration: Mark Allen Miller Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company’s…
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2900 words)

The Warlord and the Basketball Star: A Story of Congo's Corrupt Gold Trade

When an athlete-turned-humanitarian and an energy executive tried to buy gold in Kenya, they found themselves mired in Congo's dangerous world of conflict minerals -- and totally outmatched. Former…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2112 words)
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