Flood shuts Canada's national archives. The article states that the building has had 116 environmental incidents since 1988. Could just be me, but it seems like a stupid place to be storing important documents. 

Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted by Thomas Edison in 1903. He also happened to document the moment on film, which he obviously titled Electrocuting an Elephant. 

Forensic typography or how Jonathan Hoefler stopped the next hip-hop war. 

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