Leo Tolstoy on finding meaning in a meaningless world
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How Iceland became a geothermal powerhouse
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On progress and historical change
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Investigation: Who’s telling the truth about Disco Elysium?
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Alice in Wonderland’s hidden messages
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Danish painters in the 19th century may have turned to an unusual source for some of their supplies: breweries
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Why 95% of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust
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The history of Halo 2 world records
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The death of Antony & Cleopatra (30 B.C.E.)
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The Dutch Textile Trade Project aims to understand the circulation of globally-sourced textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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The End of Art: Arthur Danto's influential art theory
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The first (and now last) overhead wire electric ferry in Europe
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How two friends sparked LA’s sushi obsession — and changed the way America eats
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Building a cathedral without science or mathematics: The engineering method explained
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Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
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When Tintin entered the Cold War. As a spy thriller, 1954’s The Calculus Affair was far ahead of its time.
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The secret world of Japan's puzzle masters
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How medieval thinkers foreshadowed modern physics in investigating the character of machines, devices and forces
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Getting Over It's biggest barrier was finally broken
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DLARC Radio Library surpasses 75,000 items of ham radio, shortwave history
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SolarWinds: The untold story of the boldest supply-chain hack ever
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Ancient Earth map | Map showing modern locations across millions of years
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The Final Kick - Reactions to the 1994 World Cup Final (Brazil - Italy), shot in forty countries!
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The Harmonium
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The history of the Hawaiian Luau
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Top-secret atomic bunker has opened to the public in Denmark – built to withstand a nuclear attack, it's now an astonishing subterranean museum
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France’s baby bust
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The World Wide Web became available to the broader public thirty years ago
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Borges and $: The parable of the literary master and the coin
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The best writing about punctuation. Full stop.
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The history of the boycott: How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888
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No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
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Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them
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Gender-affirming care has a long history in the US
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True kilts: Debunking the myths about highlanders and clan tartans
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Welcome to America’s most elite girls boarding school. Let the hazing begin.
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How Somali food in the diaspora holds the history of forced migration
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Iron boots: The slimming, trimming, shaping equipment that the fitness industry forgot about
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The insane engineering of the M1 Abrams
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Finland's long road to NATO – Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2022 revived memories of 1939 and was the catalyst that led the Nordic country into the Alliance
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Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn
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The Witch Trials of JK Rowling
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George Takei: Love and justice beyond the stars
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The Museum of Failure’s latest exhibition is an epic portrait of failures big and small—from the Ford Edsel, to CNN+
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The end of computer magazines in America
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The world's greatest fighter jet: The F-15 Eagle
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The city that fell off a cliff
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The false evolution of execution methods
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A Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud is central to an emerging theory that Scottish and Irish Celts played a far bigger role in Iceland's history than realised
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Czechia's incredible 1960s supervillain-lair hotel (and why its architect got banned by the regime)
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