Why did the UK government nationalise this pub?
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Inside arXiv — the most transformative platform in all of science
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Looking for books about history or biographies or memoirs that you enjoyed reading or were happy to have read
I would add that you believe to be accurate. I'm not looking for guns germs and steel. Thanks for any suggestions.
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Jerry Lewis' lost 1972 comedy film on Nazism discovered in Sweden
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Canada achieved measles elimination status in 1998. Now, it could lose it.
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Hudson's Bay Company | Bankrupt
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The secret history of font piracy
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Folk music is having a resurgence in Norway spurred by a reclamation of the genre among generation Z
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Volvo's greatest car, the P1800s, and how the Brits almost killed it
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The future of music is noise
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MV Derbyshire: the sinking no one could explain
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The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be
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What historic unsolved mysteries do you want solved?
This isn't just about crimes like the identity of Jack the Ripper, DB Cooper, the fate of the two English princes locked in the Tower of London, or what happened to Jimmy Hoffa. There are so many...
This isn't just about crimes like the identity of Jack the Ripper, DB Cooper, the fate of the two English princes locked in the Tower of London, or what happened to Jimmy Hoffa. There are so many mysteries throughout history that are unlikely to ever be fully solved or explained, that we can only theorize about.
What is the Voynich Manuscript? Who was the Man in the Iron Mask? Why was the Mary Celeste abandoned? What's up with the Dyatlov Pass Incident? What's the real story behind the Pied Piper of Hamelin? What did Anne Boelyn really look like?
There's an infinite wealth of mysteries throughout history, so which ones do you find the most intriguing? Bonus points if they're more obscure, or a smaller local one!
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The unlikely rise of the Indian space program
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Börje Salming's journey from European outsider to NHL legend redefined what it meant to be tough on the ice
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This 200-year-old lighter ignites without a spark
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Inside Denmark's super-efficient S-tog rail system
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What happened to 'The Invaders', the 1960s alien invasion TV show?
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Darude ‘Sandstorm’ played simultaneously on Finnish radio stations to celebrate 25th anniversary
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Inside the very peculiar and wildly popular world of Armored Medieval Combat
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The root of happiness isn't considered to lie in extravagance or materialism in Helsinki. Here, it's about things that are both smaller and more profound.
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From the front line to the freezer aisle: How World War II changed the way we eat
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Peter Gabriel on synthesizers as a "dream machine" (1983)
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So that consumption doesn't get out of hand, there's a Swedish tradition called Lördagsgodis, or Saturday sweets
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Nearly 70% of Swedish territory is covered by forests, with half belonging to the private sector – what does that mean for the nation's economic and environmental ambitions
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Running the first 100km of the oldest river in the world to see what all the fuss is about. Unlike rivers affected by local populations of people, the Finke is affected by those who don’t live there.
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The internet used to be a place
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How the US built 5,000 ships in World War II
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Re-enacting the 1492 papal conclave for college credit
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Why does the UK have colour-coded milk?
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That time France went "all nuclear"
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Fourteen thousand World War I poems digitised
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What game invented jumping on enemies?
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English is not normal. No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
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The disturbing history of Dr. Oetker's success. What started as a small pharmacy in Bielefeld, Germany, grew into a food empire that aligned with Adolf Hitler’s regime and profited from the war.
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A 1903 proposal to preserve the dead in glass cubes
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The ripe stuff: In pursuit of the perfect fruit
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How the 'Shetland Bus' helped Norway resist Nazi Germany – innocent-looking fishing boats delivered valuable cargo and special agents
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When ChatGPT broke an entire field: An oral history
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Who was the first video game boss? (And why do we call them that?)
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The most dangerous building in Manhattan
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That joke isn't funny any more
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The icy glamour of Greta Garbo's doomed heroines is genuinely iconic – over a century after her first appearance, here's why Hollywood missed her so badly
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How Hoover Dam works
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Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate
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The IL-86: The Soviets' botched answer to the 747
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Is Anarchy Online the worst MMO ever?
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As Radiohead and the Royal Shakespeare Company launch an innovative reinterpretation of Hamlet, a visit to the play's setting in Denmark brings a new dimension to the tragedy
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In April 1945 the Swedish Red Cross launched the largest rescue operation of World War II – the mission, involving the now-iconic “White Buses”, ultimately saved 15,000 prisoners
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