Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years.
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Cogs in the machine: The crash of Colgan Air flight 3407 and its legacy
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Internet Artifacts
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Asin tibuok, nicknamed the dinosaur egg, is one of the rarest salts in the world. Only a few families on a small island in the Philippines still make it. | Still Standing
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Sculpting a 16th century alchemy dragon
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PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir will take part in Iceland's first full-day womens strike in forty-eight years – calling for pay equality and action on gender-based violence
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In Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese aims a righteous fury at American history
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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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Why the Early Modern Period is the most underrated era in European history
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The Frighteners (1996) | Almost Cult Classics
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The Zone of Interest | Official trailer
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The Silk Road: Eight goods traded along the ancient network
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Looking for recommendations of Bronze Age historical fiction
Basically what it says in the thread title- any recommendations are welcome.
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Disney at 100: Seven ways Walt’s company forever changed entertainment
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How to debase the coinage in order to pay for wars
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Tomoya Ikeda — Macintosh artist
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Agnetha Fältskog recalls the stress and sadness in ABBA, their blockbuster Voyage project, and the music she never lets the world hear
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Kenichi Shinohara's pixel art Ukiyo-e (1987)
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Feared lost now rediscovered - documentary about life in Brazilian Amazon from 1918 that has been hailed as a classic emerges from depths of Czech archive
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Enhance your calm: Demolition Man turns thirty
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Fritz Haber, the man who killed millions and saved billions
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India’s early electronic music from the ’70s is finally being released
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Countdown to collision: The crash of LATAM Perú flight 2213
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New Zealand Matrix fan film becomes oldest active torrent in the world
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We might have accidentally killed any life we collected in samples on Mars nearly fifty years ago
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The surprising history of cars in the US offers hope for a shift toward more climate-friendly transportation options
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The Digital Antiquarian: The Last Express
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Two women were killed by bears on a day in 1967, the first such deaths in Glacier Park. Park policies completely changed in response.
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Rare 1885 photo captures the first licensed women doctors of India, Japan, and Syria
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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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Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous 300 year old Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall
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One hundred seconds of confusion: The crash of China Airlines flight 140
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How not to fly a plane: The 2017 Teterboro Learjet crash
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Remembering the Philadelphia ‘Pathetics’, the worst baseball team in history
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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 history and influence of Columbo - the quirky detective who won our hearts
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How languages steal words from each other
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A case of sexual violence in cyberspace (1993)
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‘Instant credibility’: The evolution of sneakers from functional kicks to high-value commodities
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The avant-garde origins of 'Gumby'
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Medieval pet names
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Why 'The Hobbit' is still underappreciated, eighty-six years later: A Culture Re-View
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The battle to make Nirvana’s ‘unlistenable’ final album
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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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