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- The CIA’s outsourced torture is lost to history https://foreverwars.substack.com/p/the-cias-outsourced-torture-is-lost 46 comments
- [OptaJoe] 4 - England have lost a home match by 4+ goals without scoring for the first time in their entire history. Unexpected. https://twitter.com/OptaJoe/status/1536810118465331200?s=20 8 comments soccer
- A new study finds the opioid epidemic has led to tens of billions in lost tax revenue - It’s already the deadliest drug overdose crisis in US history. But it’s also affecting the economy and budgets. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/16/18410464/opioid-epidemic-lost-tax-revenue-overdose-death 15 comments politics
- History Disappeared When Myspace Lost 12 Years of Music, and It Will Happen Again https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/history-disappeared-when-myspace-lost-12-years-of-music-and-it-will-happen-again/ 10 comments technology
- The Lost History of FDR’s Court-Packing Scandal - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/02/24/the-lost-history-of-fdrs-court-packing-scandal-225201 3 comments moderatepolitics
- 6 teams in NBA history have lost 45 games while finishing the season scoring more points than they gave up. Charlotte has done it each of the past two seasons. https://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/tsl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&type=team_totals&lg_id=nba&c1stat=losses&c1comp=gt&c1val=45&order_by=mov 3 comments nba
- Australia's Largest Bank Lost The Personal Financial Histories Of 12 Million Customers https://www.buzzfeed.com/paulfarrell/australias-largest-bank-lost-the-personal-financial 6 comments worldnews
- Mourinho on CL draw: “I think it’s a dangerous group and, if you go to the recent history, United lost against Basel, couldn’t beat Benfica in two matches. I think also against CSKA Moscow the last time was 0-0 or 1-0 or something.” https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/6vyqdl/mourinho_on_cl_draw_i_think_its_a_dangerous_group/ 17 comments soccer
- In the version of history found in India’s new textbooks, China lost 1962 and Gandhi wasn’t murdered https://qz.com/1054692/in-the-version-of-history-found-in-indias-new-textbooks-china-lost-1962-and-gandhi-wasnt-murdered/ 29 comments worldnews
- 2016 Blue Jays are the first team in MLB history to reach the playoffs with a bullpen that lost more than 30 regular-season games (Morosi) https://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/782904432656683008 89 comments baseball
- A vital piece of American History may be lost to townhouses. http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160901_inquirer_editorial__george_s_gem_worth_saving.html 4 comments history
- The lost history of Australia's penguins revealed http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016/04/26/the-lost-history-of-australias-penguins/ 3 comments science
- This is the first time in NFL history the Green Bay Packers have lost all their division home games, while simultainiously winning all their division away games. http://www.packers.com/news-and-events/article-ask-vic-extra/article-1/play-to-the-strength-of-the-defense/00206635-9ea4-43c6-ad9d-a80514dae692?campaign=sf18040722 6 comments nfl
- The Browns have lost 10 straight week one games, the longest streak in NFL history. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/team_streak_finder.cgi?request=1&streak_type=games&year_min=1970&year_max=2015&team_id=&opp_id=&game_type=r&game_location=&game_result=&game_num_min=1&game_num_max=1&week_num_min=0&week_num_max=99&game_day_of_week=&streak_event=losses&streak_event_gtlt=eq&streak_num=1&streak_event_2=&streak_event_gtlt_2=gt&streak_num_2=&streak_length=2&c1stat=&c1comp=gt&c1val=&c2stat=&c2comp=gt&c2val=&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val= 12 comments nfl
- 7 Lost American Slang Words : NPR History Dept. : NPR http://www.npr.org/blogs/npr-history-dept/2015/04/23/401681334/7-lost-american-slang-words?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=morningedition&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150424 28 comments linguistics
- Here’s the history of how big business lost control of the GOP http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/14/heres-the-history-of-how-big-business-lost-control-of-the-gop/ 3 comments politics
- 7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World http://www.cracked.com/article/18368_7-books-we-lost-to-history-that-would-have-changed-world/ 5 comments history
- History repeats itself: in 1998, the defending champion Denver Broncos, at 13-0, lost to the 5-8 New York Giants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Denver_Broncos_season#Schedule 9 comments nfl
- The Quest to Solve the Hardest Math Problem in History (and the Minds that were Lost Along the Way) http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/25/the-quest-to-solve-the-hardest-math-problem-in-history-and-the-minds-that-were-lost-along-the-way/ 33 comments math
- Obama will go down in history as the president who lost Egypt http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/obama-will-go-down-in-history-as-the-president-who-lost-egypt-1.340057 12 comments politics
- Lost tiger population discovered - Television footage shot by the BBC's Natural History Unit has provided the first evidence that tigers can live and breed at extremely high altitudes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11368475 9 comments science
- Tonight's losses by Steph Curry and Nikola Jokic mark only the second time in NBA history that two players have scored 50 points in one night and both lost https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/lef1ll/tonights_losses_by_steph_curry_and_nikola_jokic/ 126 comments nba
- [OC] Lost Leagues (The Series on Defunct Pro Football Leagues): History of the Regional Football League (1999) https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/bquq1g/oc_lost_leagues_the_series_on_defunct_pro/ 14 comments nfl
- The Browns have lost 26 straight games played on Sunday, now the longest Sunday losing streak in NFL history https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/929819956581163008 4 comments nfl
- While the Wizards lead 23 at the half, remember that only 2 teams in the history of playoffs lost a game with a 20+ points lead at the half. One of them is the 2017 Pacers. https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/69bqtb/while_the_wizards_lead_23_at_the_half_remember/ 28 comments nba
- Real Madrid has lost a La Liga match at the Bernabeu because of a goal in added time for the first time in their history https://twitter.com/2010misterchip/status/856249566047465472 52 comments soccer
- This Week in Football History (Oct 27 – Nov 2): Real Madrid lost 4-0 to a third division team. Arsenal and Spurs shared an eight-goal thriller. Three absolutely insane goals were scored in the Champions League, Cruyff made his Barca debut and a team in Madagascar scored 149 goals in one game http://www.fcbarcelona.com/football/first-team/detail/article/40-years-since-cruyff-s-fc-barcelona-debut 109 comments soccer
- This Week in Football History (Oct 21-26) – Martin Tyler’s greatest piece of commentary. Matt Le Tissier's best goal. Man Utd lost 6-3 and 6-1 but beat the Invincibles. Tommy Gemmill assaulted Helmut Haller. The original Clasico 5-0 occurred. Football got its first team and the worst defending ever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_F.C.#Formation 86 comments soccer
- I've lost my faith in the Time magazine. Here's the inventor they decided to revere for their recent History Issue. [pic] http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20100705,00.html 49 comments reddit.com
- "The names of the untold hundreds of thousands put to the blade by nominally Christian generals have been lost to history – but their deaths and their neighbors’ fearful conversion were no different from the converts won and deaths caused in Islam’s early spread." http://www.tremblethedevil.com/2009/12/434.html 2 comments history
- [OptaJoe] 9 - Manchester United have lost 0-9 on aggregate in their Premier League meetings with Liverpool this season. In their league history, they’ve only suffered a combined heavier defeat once – 0-11 vs Sunderland in 1892-93. Trounced. https://www.twitter.com/OptaJoe/status/1516523900204634126?s=20 5 comments soccer
- [Kacsmar] The Steelers led by 13 and lost by 13+ for only the 2nd time in team history. Last was 1969 vs. Eagles. https://twitter.com/ScottKacsmar/status/1736202180795802050?s=19&t=dnJAkb0x3qhDau-KAWwICw 40 comments nfl
- Donald Trump and the new Lost Cause | If you want to know how the Big Lie will go down in revisionist history, look to the South and the Civil War https://www.salon.com/2021/06/19/donald-trump-and-the-new-lost-cause/ 74 comments politics
- This is the 4th time in NBA history that a player lost a playoff game with a 40+ point triple double (Jerry West in 1969, LeBron James in 2015, Russell Westbrook in 2017) https://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/pgl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=game&is_playoffs=y&game_result=l&age_min=0&age_max=99&season_start=1&season_end=-1&pos_is_g=y&pos_is_gf=y&pos_is_f=y&pos_is_fg=y&pos_is_fc=y&pos_is_c=y&pos_is_cf=y&c1stat=pts&c1comp=gt&c1val=40&is_trp_dbl=y&order_by=pts 19 comments nba
- "This is the largest tax bill in history," the Republican leader fumed. The reform "is unjust, unworkable, stupidly drafted and wastefully financed. We must repeal! The Republican Party is pledged to do this." Who was it? 1936 presidential nominee Alf Landon, about social security. He lost to FDR. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/19/ar2010031902636.html 28 comments politics
- One of the great ironies of the information age is that we are losing content almost as quickly as we are creating it. If we don't come up with better archiving strategies our digital history could be lost forever. http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2821229.htm 29 comments technology
- [OC] In its entire history, the Brazilian national team has lost only four competitive home internationals. The last South American team to win a competitive international match in Brazil was Uruguay, in 1950 https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/c8cjkn/oc_in_its_entire_history_the_brazilian_national/ 35 comments soccer
- [OptaJose on Twitter] 18 - Real Madrid have not lost any of their last 18 La Liga away games (W12 D6), equalling their best unbeaten away run in the competition’s history: 18 in 1997 (W11 D7) and 18 in 2016 (W13 D5). Invincible. https://t.co/aTsBn7AeuW https://twitter.com/OptaJose/status/1439695967247339525?s=09 55 comments soccer
- General Forrest's KKK was the worst terrorist group in our nation's history, and it was explicitly founded to keep ex-slaves in their place. The idea of the Lost Cause itself is an act of shifting historical blame from the evils of chattel slavery to perceived imperial aggression from Yankees. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/19/enough-with-this-lost-cause-nonsense.html 3 comments politics
- Capturing the records of the Japanese-American internment, particularly the oral histories, is significant because many of the interned people never talked about it, even with their families or children. Without Densho’s efforts, this history could have been lost. https://www.laserfiche.com/simplicity/densho-digitization-preserves-internment-history/ 11 comments history