This day in history

2012, 2017.

#10yrsago Increasingly desperate quest to find photos to illustrate news stories about Eurozone crisis https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/photographers-try-to-find-new-ways-to-illustrate-euro-crisis-a-854135.html

#5yrsago The Voynich Manuscript appears to be a fairly routine anthology of ancient women’s health advice https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/voynich-manuscript-solution/

#5yrsago Australia’s housing bubble is built on a deadly, about-to-burst credit bubble https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/issuing-new-loans-against-unrealised-capital-gains-has-created-an-australian-house-of-cards/news-story/853e540ce0a8ed95d5881a730b6ed2c9

#5yrsago Equifax lobbied to take away breach victims’ right to sue https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/equifax-lobbied-kill-rule-protecting-victims-data-breaches-2587929

#10yrsago Equifax’s dox of America: Sign up for “free” monitoring, get billed forever https://web.archive.org/web/20170911025943/https://therealnews.com/t2/story:19960:Equifax-Data-Breach-is-a-10-out-of-10-Scandal

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