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Articles written 1850 to 1859 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1856First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming (publicdomainreview.org)
216 points | 4 years ago with 107 comments
1852The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (historyisaweapon.com)
209 points | 5 years ago with 164 comments
1859On Liberty (socialsciences.mcmaster.ca)
167 points | 3 years ago with 103 comments
1859Pig War (en.wikipedia.org)
130 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments
1854Life Without Principle (thoreau.eserver.org)
100 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments
1851Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and Art (c82.net)
99 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
1857US time zones (en.wikipedia.org)
81 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
1852“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (teachingamericanhistory.org)
80 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
1851A Fine Map from Alexander von Humboldt (longstreet.typepad.com)
73 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
1858Charles Dickens on being unhappily married (laphamsquarterly.org)
45 points | 8 years ago with 42 comments

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