‘Billion Dollar Day’: What Currency Trading Looked Like in 1986

“This morning William is late. The pound is already rising. He must decide within minutes whether to jump on the bandwagon and buy some pounds in the hope that they’ll go on going up.” — from “Billion Dollar Day”

Biggest Mountain Bike Flip

Cam Zink made history in 2013 on the Oakley Icon Sender at Red Bull Rampage completing the biggest freeride mountain bike step-down backflip in history getting him 3rd place in the competition.

Ray Charles on Singing True

“If somebody don’t like something that I do, that’s his or her prerogative. Just like it’s mine.” —Ray Charles Interview by Joe Smith June 3, 1987. Cassette Tape

Mark “The Bird” Fidrych Talks about Pitching for Detroit Tigers

1985 interview with former Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark “The Bird” Fidrych about his career and injury. From the Chicago television series “Once a Star.”

A Short History of the Morgue at The New York Times

Inside the New York Times photo archives, known as the “morgue,” the filmmaker Katerina Cizek and the archivist Jeff Roth discuss the making of “A Short History of the Highrise.”

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