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When the Mary Rose sank in the Solent in 1545, the silt that swallowed her hull also sealed the skeletons of around 179 crew, and modern isotope analysis of their teeth has revealed that Henry VIII’s flagship was crewed in part by sailors who grew up in North Africa and southern Europe.

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Monochrome image of a submerged shipwreck in the Caribbean Sea.

🗺 Part of the Growth List Startup Lists Collection All Startup Lists | By Funding Stage | Sales Outreach | Startup Intelligence When the Mary Rose sank in the Solent in 1545, the silt that swallowed her hull also sealed the skeletons of around 179 crew. Modern isotope analysis of their teeth revealed that Henry … Read more

In 1959, Yale historian Derek de Solla Price published a paper arguing that a corroded shoebox-sized lump pulled from a Greek shipwreck was a working analog computer from around 100 BC, a claim so absurd at the time that most classicists quietly ignored it for the next forty years.

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Discover the captivating beauty of a coral-encrusted shipwreck deep beneath the sea.

Resource Hubs: For more long-form features on the people, machines, and discoveries that shaped how the modern world works, browse the Growth List editorial collection. Think of a pocket watch. Now strip away the spring, the escapement, the glass, the centuries of refinement, and bury what remains in saltwater for two thousand years. Pull it … Read more

When Barclays told Paulson and Geithner at 8 a.m. Sunday that the UK regulator would not clear its Lehman guarantee, Bank of America and Merrill had already agreed to a $29-a-share rescue of their own

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Resource Hubs: For more on the institutional histories that shaped modern finance, browse the Growth List startup archive, our recently funded companies database, and our United States startup funding lists. At 8 a.m. on Sunday, September 14, 2008, Barclays told Hank Paulson, Tim Geithner, and SEC chairman Christopher Cox that the UK Financial Services Authority … Read more

In January 2020, researchers studying a sliver of the Murchison meteorite published an age for one of its silicon carbide grains of 7 billion years, meaning that single speck of stardust formed more than two billion years before the Sun and drifted through interstellar space before settling into an Australian paddock.

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Bright meteors streak across a starry night sky during a captivating shower.

Resource Hubs: For sales and recruiting teams researching newly-funded startups, Growth List publishes weekly lists of funded companies sourced from Crunchbase, with verified decision-maker contacts. On 28 September 1969, a fireball broke apart above the dairy town of Murchison, Victoria, scattering fragments across the area. A local farmer carried pieces to the offices of the … Read more

When Dick Rowe supposedly told Brian Epstein in early 1962 that guitar groups were on the way out, nobody wrote the line down — it first appeared in print two years later, in Epstein’s own memoir, and Rowe spent the rest of his life denying he ever said it

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Resource Hubs: Newly Funded Startups · Growth List Blog · B2B Lead Lists Brian Poole and the Tremeloes got the Decca contract. The Beatles did not. That is the only part of the famous audition story that survives unchanged when you actually go looking for the documents. The rest of it — the smirking executive, … Read more

In 1988, the Soviet Buran shuttle launched into a snowstorm with no one aboard, circled the Earth twice, and on the way down abandoned its planned approach, swung a wide arc into a 17-metre-per-second crosswind, and landed itself so gently that its brake parachutes fired nine seconds late.

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Resource Hubs: For more long-form features on the engineering decisions, missions, and machines that shaped modern spaceflight, browse the Growth List blog. Think of a bird that hatches, flies once across a continent in a snowstorm, lands without ever being touched, and then never flies again. That is roughly the biography of the Buran orbiter, … Read more

Before Koch and Meir floated out the Quest airlock on 18 October 2019, every single one of the 420 spacewalks performed in the history of human spaceflight had included at least one man, a streak that stretched unbroken from Alexei Leonov’s first walk in March 1965.

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Resource Hubs: For more on funded company intelligence and decision-maker data, browse the Growth List database of recently funded startups, or read our other features on milestone moments in science and technology. Christina Koch and Jessica Meir clipped their tethers to the outside of the International Space Station in October 2019 and floated into vacuum … Read more

In 2013, Canada pulled its penny from circulation when production cost hit 1.6 cents per coin, but the US Mint kept pressing one-cent pieces for another twelve years at costs that climbed past 3.69 cents, absorbing losses no private manufacturer would tolerate for a single quarter

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Spilled jar of pennies creating a pattern of coins representing savings and finance.

Resource Hubs: Growth List tracks newly funded startups, decision-maker contacts, and verified outreach data sourced from Crunchbase. Browse our funded startups database and weekly lead lists for sales, recruiting, and partnership teams. On the afternoon of Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at the United States Mint in Philadelphia, US Treasurer Brandon Beach stepped up to a … Read more

In 1975, a young Kodak engineer named Steve Sasson wired a Super-8 lens to a cassette recorder and waited 23 seconds for a single black-and-white image to crawl onto tape, and the executives who watched, whose film business ran on 70 percent margins, could not see why anyone would want it

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Black and white photo of vintage cameras on display with descriptive signs.

In December 1975, in a research lab in Rochester, New York, a young Kodak engineer named Steve Sasson aimed a device the size of a toaster at a lab technician and flipped a switch. Capturing the image took about fifty milliseconds. Then he waited. Twenty-three seconds later, the data finished crawling onto a cassette tape. … Read more

Every year, about 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust settles over the Amazon basin, carrying enough phosphorus to replace what rain and flooding wash away, and complicating the famous story of a single Chadian lake bed quietly feeding the forest

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Stunning landscape of golden desert dunes under a dramatic cloudy sky.

Every year, a tan veil of Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic and settles over the Amazon basin, carrying roughly 22,000 tons of phosphorus into a rainforest whose own rain is constantly washing that nutrient away. The numbers are startling because the map looks impossible. One system is the largest hot desert on Earth. The other … Read more

The Mars family controls one of America’s largest private companies and almost never gives an interview or appears at a public event, a tradition of invisibility Forrest Mars Sr. enforced for the rest of his life after one 1966 magazine profile enraged him

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Resource Hubs: For more on founder-driven companies and the families behind them, see Growth List’s coverage of the largest private companies in America, multigenerational family businesses, and recently funded startups backed by founder capital rather than venture money. In 1966, Forrest Mars Sr. agreed to a single sit-down interview with Candy Industry & Confectioner’s Journal. … Read more

When cosmonauts and astronauts climb out of a Soyuz capsule on the Kazakh steppe, recovery crews have learned to expect the same reaction Doug Wheelock described after 163 days in orbit, a wave of grass and soil scent so intense that returning crew often have to sit down.

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Explore more from the Growth List Resource Hubs: curated reads on startup data, founder behaviour, and the strange edges of human experience that intersect with how we work and build. Doug Wheelock spent time aboard the International Space Station, and when he climbed out of his Soyuz capsule onto the Kazakh steppe, the thing that … Read more