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The year is 2005... Anakin turns to the dark side, YouTube makes its debut and we’re all couch-jumping for Maria, McDreamy and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo…
T minus 20, rewind to this week in history 20 years ago with Joe and Mel.
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The iPod video era: when we watched Lost on a two-inch screen
Rewind to 9 October 2005 to 15 October 2005🚀 China goes full space cowboy China’s Shenzhou 6 mission blasts off, sending two taikonauts into orbit for nearly five days — a major flex in the global space race. It’s their...
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Episode 38
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Spark-ula: Twilight hits bookstores and turns vampires dreamy
🧑⚖️ Supreme Court Soap Harriet Miers is tapped to replace Sandra Day O’Connor and America collectively Googles “Who?” A loyal Bush insider with zero judicial experience tries to sell a “practicing lawyer’s perspective.” Conservative...
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Season 5
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Episode 37
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From MySpace to emo icons: Panic! at the Disco’s debut album
Rewind to 25 September to 1 October 2005 — when emo kids were discovering top hats, Fergie was making “lady lumps” a phrase and Bali gets hit by bombings again.🪖 Abu Ghraib’s dark shadow Lynndie England was found guilty...
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Episode 36
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How I Met Your Mother hits screens & INXS finds a frontman
Rewind to 18–24 September 2005🌪️ Rita raises hell Just three weeks after Katrina, Hurricane Rita stormed in as a Category 5 beast before slamming Texas and Louisiana as a Category 3. The real nightmare? The evacuation. ...
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Season 5
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Episode 35
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From pop princess to pop mama: Britney Spears gives birth
Rewind to 11–18 September 2005⚡ Lights out in LAMillions of Angelenos suddenly found themselves trapped in elevators, stuck at dead traffic lights, and clutching their Nokia flip phones as a worker’s “oopsie” cut the...
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Season 5
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Episode 34
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