Sámi National Day – National day that falls on February 6th. This date was when the first Sámi congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway
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The Bowed Strings Iconography Project catalogues as many images of bowed string instruments as possible throughout all periods of history through to the present day
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Early illustrations of the nervous system by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years
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How to eat like a pirate: Hardtack & grog
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A picture of what dating looked like in the 1950s
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How did the Blow Job shot happen?
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The lost treasure of Joe Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes
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An art revolution, made with scissors and glue
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Power-Up Baseball - Baseball’s lost “NBA Jam” revealed
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WorkBoy: Lost Game Boy add-on found after twenty-eight years
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“Dig Us”: 60 Years of Louis Armstrong at the Sphinx
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What color was “Apple Beige”
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Kyrgyzstan ballads, Okinawa folk, Ugandan hymns … the album rewriting global music history
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335 year old recipe, 'Rice Puddings In Guts' (beef bung casing), from The Acompliſht Cook
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Richard Feynman and the bomb
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In 1978, to emulate the exuberant and stylistic luxury of the Lincoln Continental, Volvo launched its own facsimile of the traditional American land yacht, the 262C
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The word "Robot" is a hundred years old this month
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When capitalists go on strike
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How to Eurovision – ‘It seems that Norway and the violin are a perfect combination’
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Kaiju history part 1: Godzilla
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HD laserdisc: HD in 1993
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Military historian breaks down medieval weapons in video games
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How much time do you think should pass before articles or discussion about any given event can be tagged as history?
Personally I think the minimum should be 10 or 15 years, with stuff from 5 to 10 years ago being recent history, but I'm kinda biased.
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How Rome destroyed its own republic
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How to resign, via Letters of Note
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Why Japanese tigers have flat heads: Painted screen by Maruyama Okyo 円山応挙 | Curator's Corner S06 E04
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A real-life Lord of the Flies: The troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment
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The most expensive books and manuscripts in history
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The man who invented more than eight hundred iconic toys and games
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Inside the US Army’s warehouse full of Nazi art
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The history of Super Mario Bros. 2 world records
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One town, four elements – Ytterby in Sweden is famous for being the single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world
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The butteriest popcorn, movie theater style (but using real butter)
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Culture kept in its coffin: How the Netflix model buries our media history
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How to revive a dead language: Although it was the language of sacred texts and ritual, modern Hebrew wasn’t spoken in conversation till the late nineteenth century
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The history of Jews, Chinese food, and Christmas, explained by a rabbi
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The secret history of the conversation chair
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The story of 1987's Acorn Archimedes, the first production ARM/RISC-based personal computer
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What did the past smell like?
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The father of modern warfare – the military reforms of Gustavus Adolphus' changed the face of European warfare
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An elixir from the French Alps, frozen in time
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How did the Qing dynasty collapse? The Xinhai revolution explained
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The folkloric roots of the QAnon conspiracy
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MLB is finally recognizing the Negro Leagues as the Major Leagues they always were
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The fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
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How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare
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Tomorrow’s World: Office of the Future (1969)
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That Downfall scene explained: What is Adolf Hitler freaking out about?
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The rise and fall of Ambrosia Software
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