There's a belief that some form of cider was made by Vikings in Norway, and today, its growing popularity has people convinced it's the country's national drink
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Murder ballads were the original true crime
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‘Used as dartboards’: rare British war comic art rescued from bins, skips and floods
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Review, commentary, analysis based on four books featuring the history and misuse of statistical data
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Rugby turns 200: A history of the sport in Japan
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Rubaboo - Pemmican stew of Canadian Mounties
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This boring gray boat patrolling the US east coast is actually a vigilante
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The fascinating story behind Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1968 epic War and Peace (2019)
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An oral history of Bank Python
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Haitian scholar was early path-breaking anthropologist
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A literary history of fake texts in Apple’s marketing materials
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Norway remembers its wartime debt to Dumfries – special relationship being marked with the unveiling of a one-and-a-half tonne stone of friendship
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The legacy of Star Trek: The Animated Series, fifty years on
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Timeline of the history of the web
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The pirate preservationists - a long history
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Soviet flying aircraft carriers were ingenious
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Obituary: Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and his quest to capture the world with logic
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Three medieval tales about adventures to the Moon - from three different cultures
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The dead man’s gambit: The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 961
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Tempest over Texas: The crash of Braniff International Airways flight 352
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Bubble Tea, also called Boba, is everywhere. But who made it first?
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Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner
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Ancient Beat - A weekly newsletter about developments in the study of the ancient world
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Copa 71: When 112,500 fans packed out the unofficial Women’s World Cup final
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Fajitas, a Mexican dish that was really born in Texas
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Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
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The early history of counting
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The number of strikes rippling across the US seem big, but the total number of Americans walking off the job remains historically low
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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
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No Meat Required - Alicia Kennedy’s new book explores the tensions and triumphs of leaving meat behind
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Prefatory remarks on 'Oppenheimer'
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The real Betty Crocker's pineapple upside down cake
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What would you change about your past if you could?
If you had only ONE OPPORTUNITY to change ONE event in your past, what would you have changed? I would never have ended my relationship the way I did, with cheating.
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To mark the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, activist Crystal Eastman described the path to full freedom for American women
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The world’s oldest cat door has been letting working cats enter the cathedral since the 14th Century
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Bobbi Gibb: The Boston Marathon pioneer who raced a lie that women couldn't run marathons
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Ferris Bueller: The sitcom | Forgotten Failures
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The Baťa Skyscraper in Zlín, Czechia is a landmark of architecture. And inside it, the office of Jan Antonín Baťa... is an elevator.
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The world’s last internet cafes
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Cruelty of chance: The Cerritos mid-air collision and the crash of Aeroméxico flight 498
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Casio CALEID XM-700 Mobile Navigator (1997)
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Interview: Tom Moulton, father of the Disco Mix (1976)
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“The Famous F40” vector illustration by David Rumfelt
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Fifty years on, Swedish psychiatrists are now calling the infamous Stockholm syndrome a 'constructed concept' used to explain away the failures of the State
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Learning how to garden a forest - discussion of methods to prevent wildfire
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New BBC drama series set in Magdalene Laundries - shows gaslighting, shame and abuse of unwed mothers of all ages
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Everything you didn't know about Ukraine's flag
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One win, 17,000 defeats - life as a Washington General
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The highest-ranking penguin in the world, Sir Nils Olav III, has been promoted to Major General by the Norwegian King's Guard
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The day women shut down Iceland
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