Annual gift of a Christmas tree from the people of Oslo in Norway to London continues – tree was cut down early yesterday morning in woods in the northern part of Oslo's capital
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Man in Denmark hands in eighty guns and suspected WWII grenade during weapons amnesty – part of nationwide scheme to tackle violence between criminal gangs
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Navajo code talker who helped allies win Second World War dies aged 107
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Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code.
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Modern Warfare: How Call of Duty 4 changed a genre forever
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The strange origin story behind Akira's megacity, Neo Tokyo
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Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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Book borrowed from Finnish library returned eighty-four years late – copy of Arthur Conan Doyle's Refugees was due to be returned month after USSR invaded Finland
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How to build 300,000 airplanes in five years
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The engineering of duct tape
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B-17 Flying Fortress | Units of History
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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How the Berlin Wall worked
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Britain’s vast network of abandoned nuclear bunkers | Cold War UK
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Let's Build: USMC M4A2 Sherman from Saipan 1944 (Dragon 1/35)
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World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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The Greenwich meridian's forgotten rival
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Why a tire company gives out food’s most famous award
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Notes on the Ivory Coast
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Hannah Arendt would not qualify for the Hannah Arendt prize in Germany today
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WWII rescue buoys - Secret 'floating hotels' of the English Channel
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How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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In WWII paperback books were mobilized to improve morale
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London's traditional Christmas tree has been felled in Norway ahead of its trip to Trafalgar Square
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Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway
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The rise and fall of America's favorite junk foods | Rise and Fall
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Monica de Wichfeld awarded Blue plaque honour in Derrylin, Northern Ireland – was a leading member of the Danish resistance against Nazi occupation in World War II
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Why everyone hates this concrete building, and why brutalism dominates US college campuses
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How the Blitz enhanced London’s economy (2018)
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Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
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A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
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Fritz Haber, the man who killed millions and saved billions
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IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
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A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
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Gilleleje remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War II – its role in the flight and escape of over 7,000 Danish Jews
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Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
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Klaus Härö shines light on deportation of Jews from Finland in ‘Never Alone’ – first look at World War II drama
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The race to catch the last Nazis
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Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed
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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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Soviet flying aircraft carriers were ingenious
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An effort to focus on long overlooked Roma suffering in the Holocaust
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The real Betty Crocker's pineapple upside down cake
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Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked.
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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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Chuuk Lagoon's skull problem
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Götterdämmerung in the East - The Eastern Front in WWII after Stalingrad
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How a World War II submarine works
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