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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How one company owns color
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How Japan's maglev train works
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Long barrows are Neolithic constructions that might have been churches, or graveyards, or landmarks. And some are being built again: for the first time in recorded history.
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Exposed: Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people.
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On this day nineteen years ago, Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' was stolen in broad daylight from an Oslo museum
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The last campfire in Swedish society – Sommar i P1, the radio show that unifies a nation
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Antonov’s curse: The crash of Sepahan Airlines flight 5915 and the story of the An-140
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How the car came to Los Angeles
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More than thirty years after its publication, picture book Daddy's Roommate has once again found itself the target of censorship
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Mediocre Samurai describes real life in historical Japan
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Fifteen years ago, Tom Cruise revived his career with an uncredited role in Tropic Thunder
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Turning milk into clothing
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Thousands of Yiddish pulp fiction stories finally seeing the light of day
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The history of the Minnesota Vikings | Part one: 1960s
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‘His name was Bélizaire’: Rare portrait of enslaved child arrives at the Met
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The biggest bank heist in history (and why you've never heard of it)
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Record it yourself (1987)
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Man of the people: The history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s collection of obscene Russian folktales
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Making Doom and building the FPS industry at 100 miles per hour | John Romero interview
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The Summer Book (1972) – Tove Jansson's novel about love, family and nature, will make you nostalgic for your own childhood
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Complacency kills: The crash of Continental Airlines flight 1713
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Obituary - Evelyn Boyd Granville, mathematician and programmer, space-flight trailblazer (1924—2023)
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This town banned cars (except tiny electric ones)
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Switchel - The farmer's Gatorade of the 19th century
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"Motors and Generators" (1961)
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after sixty years
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Critical conversations: The crash of Eastern Airlines flight 212
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Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag from the tiny Faroe Islands have been causing a stir across Europe this summer, and things are about to get even better
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Ancient skull found in China is unlike any human seen before
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Volvo estate owners reminisce about Swedish workhorse before its withdrawal from UK market
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Historian finds evidence for use of y'all in London from 1600s
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Why do so many Scots cling to a false affinity with Norway?
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RFK Stadium | Abandoned
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The San Francisco cable car's (not quite as famous) Welsh cousin
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How cruise ships got so big
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Charles Henry Turner’s insights into animal behavior were a century ahead of their time
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The team behind Super Smash Bros. Brawl
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Lens rotation (United States Lighthouse Society)
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Why Pac-Man won
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Waging war on the Jamaican patty: Canada’s bizarre beef with the delicious snack | Patty vs Patty
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The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvel
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Witchy women: A Sabrina the Teenage Witch retrospective
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Riddick Bowe became the undisputed world heavyweight champion at age 25 by defeating Holyfield. Today we recall the comedy, drama, legendary old school battles, and ruthless aggression he embodied.
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The blue flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project
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Twitter’s future is a return to Elon Musk’s past
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How America fell out of love with ice cream
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Faced with scrap material inside a particle accelerator, physicists used a ferret to try to solve the problem
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Drama in the snow: The crash of Scandinavian Airlines flight 751
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